Baselines

This guide will go over understanding what a Baseline is and how a Baseline relates to the other bottest.ai concepts.

At its core, a Baseline represents a valid/optimal set of responses given by the chatbot in a conversation. When Tests are evaluated, the Baselines are used to tell the bottest.ai Evaluation Engine what a "Pass" should look like.

When a Test is first recorded, the Bot's responsese in the recording is parsed as the first Baseline.

You can also setup more than one Baselines for a single Test if there are multiple distinct but correct ways for a chatbot to respond to the prompts.

For example, in the following example conversations while the answers vary to the same prompt, both responses can be deemed as valid or correct. This is generally useful in the case of open-ended questions, where there might be many "correct" responses: