Since Xray v3.1, you can receive email notifications related with Test Runs. This has been extended in v3.2 to provide notifications related with changes in Tests and Pre-Conditions.

Emails are sent depending on the configuration of Jira notifications, defined in a Notification Scheme, for some specific JIRA events provided by Xray.

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1. go to project settings => Notifications
2. from the Actions menu, choose "Edit notifications". Note that this will impact the Notification Scheme being used by this project and all other projects that also use it.
   
3. in each Test Run related event, click on "Add" in order to add a notification to the related Notification Scheme
   
4. in the notification configuration page, besides the Event that will be pre-selected, define who shall receive the email notifications related with that event
   
    

Events

Test or Pre-Condition Updated

Test Run Assigned

The aim of this event is to notify a user (or users) that a Test Run has been assigned, so the tester can proceed with testing.

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