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The goal of this page is to describe how Xray handles the archiving feature and the effects of it. 

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What happens when Test Executions are archived?

Archived Test Execution issues no longer appear:

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Archiving old Test Executions is a good use case for archiving Xray issues, especially if continuous integration processes are used. These can quickly create many Test Execution issues while importing new execution results into Xray on a daily basis. These issues are good candidates to be archived.

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What happens when Tests are archived?

Archived Test issues:

  1. No longer participate in the Requirement Status calculation
  2. Are no longer taken in account in the Test Coverage
  3. No longer appear in the Tests section in the Test Plan, Test Set and Pre-Condition issue view 
  4. Are hidden from Test Repositories and Test Plan Boards
  5. Are hidden from Xray reports, gadgets and document generator exports
  6. No longer appear in search results from Xray built-in JQL functions

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Test Runs archived via Test issue can be restored at any time by restoring the Test issue.

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What happens when Tests Plans are archived?

Archived Test Plans:

  1. Are no longer used as scope for the calculation of Test Run Status and Requirement Status
  2. No longer appear in the Test Plans section in the Test issue view 
  3. Are hidden from Xray reports, gadgets and document generator exports
  4. No longer appear in search results from Xray built-in JQL functions

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An archived Test Plan issue can be restored anytime, doing so will retrieve the Test Plan state prior to archiving and all the Test Plan-scoped statuses for Tests and Requirements.

Archiving Requirement issues

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What happens when Requirements are archived?


What happens when Test Sets and Pre-Conditions

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are archived?


What happens when Projects are archived?

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When archiving a Project its issues are archived as well. If any Test or Test Execution is found, Xray will archive its internal data, namely the Test Runs will be archived and the Tests will be hidden from the Test Repository and Test Plan Boards.

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