The DIFFERENCES between baseline and BENCHMARK testing are:

Baseline testing is the process of running a set of tests to capture performance information. This information can be used as a point of reference when in future changes are MADE to the application where as Benchmarking is the process of COMPARING your system performance against an INDUSTRY standard that is given by some other organization.

Example: We can run baseline test of an application, collect and analyze results, and then modify several indexes on a SQL Server database and run the same test again, using the previous results to determine whether or not the new results were better, worse, or about the same.

The differences between baseline and benchmark testing are:

Baseline testing is the process of running a set of tests to capture performance information. This information can be used as a point of reference when in future changes are made to the application where as Benchmarking is the process of comparing your system performance against an industry standard that is given by some other organization.

Example: We can run baseline test of an application, collect and analyze results, and then modify several indexes on a SQL Server database and run the same test again, using the previous results to determine whether or not the new results were better, worse, or about the same.