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What is the difference between Variants and Baselines?

On the Cloud, we have two ways to manage versions: Baselines and Variants. Don’t know the difference? Check our guide:

Use cases

Baselines

Variants

We want to create a Baseline for each new release of the product.

We need different specifications for 2 different customers, and they are slightly different.

We want to keep track of requirements that have been approved by the client.

We must keep the public version intact, while we're currently working on the next version of the product

Use as a history tool

Parallel evolution of the same product but with small differences

I want to test a specific version of requirements and link it to Jira.

Features Comparison

Feature

Baselines

Variants

Create versions of requirements

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all requirements, or a preset from the search, or from a page.

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Variants are assigned per page (you can assign them one at a time, or multiple pages at once).

Branches

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Version Comparison

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In the Diff

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In the Modification Matrix

See who made changes

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Use the search and traceability on specific versions

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Create dependencies and links to Jira with specific versions

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