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Do you want to migrate tests from other tools? If you are able to export them to an Excel/CSV file, then you may import the tests to Jira using also using the instructions below.  Note that Xray's Test Case importer is the recommended tool for this purpose and not Jira's native CSV importer as detailed here.

If you need guidance on a specific use case, please contact us.

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You can import Test definitions from external sources using CSV files, either by using Xray's Test Case importer (recommended) or Jira's native CSV importer plugin (see Importing Data from CSV).

This page explaing the later procedure, which is more generic and supports importing of all Test types. However, for manual Tests you should use Xray's Test Case importer.


To import issues using Jira's CSV importer, as an administrator, you have to:

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titleHow to optimize this process

Some organizations already have Manual Test definitions in spreadsheets. These spreadsheets normally define all Tests to execute and within each Test, their steps. This is the main reason why  Xray's Test Case importer is a better alternative for importing Manual Tests.

Before Xray for Jira 2.1, you could use a special converter tool (now deprecated) for converting these spreadsheet Test definitions, more specifically the Test Steps, into the JSON format above expected by Xray and Jira.

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