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Your testing plan may be more or less formal (see Test Process), but probably you will probably end up using Test Plans. By creating a Test Plan with all the relevant tests for your release, you will be able to to  immediately track immediately the status of those tests and the associated requirements. From that planTest Plan, you will schedule, assign and execute tests by creating one or more Test Executions. Some of those tests might fail, so you will end up creating new or cloning existing Test Execution(s) until you have all your requirements fully validated and you decide to release.

Xray provides multiple ways to gather QA-related metrics from your project, so that when you decide to release, it will be a substantiated decision.

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