You can classify your tests in order to make it easier to organize & and search for them.
JIRA Jira has many options to classify your issues using system fields or even create your own. Here some examples:
use labels to tag your Tests (or your Test Sets); if you start having many testers and your project grows, having a well-defined list of labels may help
use thepriority field, so you can distinguish between tests
assign the Test to the proper component
Ask your JIRA Jira Administrator to create your own custom fields
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Using Test Sets
Xray gives you a new JIRA Jira issue Type, named Test Set, that enables you to get tests together grouped into a list.
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A Test Set is a collection of Tests. It often contains detailed instructions or goals as well as information on the configuration to be used during testing.
Test Sets are simple, flat lists of Tests that you can use as a basis for creating Test Executions or Test Plans. Since the Tests are grouped in some logical way, such as grouping all Tests related with regression testing or security, or
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all Tests for a specific component or some high-level feature/business case, a Test can be part of different Test Sets. Test Sets can also be used as a dynamic way to cover requirements.
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Examples of Test
Set
Sets:
You can create test set for:
Group Tests by UI Component
Group Test Tests by Type (security, performance, functional
Organize Tests in Test Sets
group tests in as many Test Sets as it makes sense to you, either because they're testing the same feature or the same UI component, or if they exercise the most critical use cases
classify your Test Sets, similarly to what you did for Tests
Organize Tests for regression testing
you can create a Test Set for this purpose and add a specific label to it (e.g., "regression"), and then you test for requirements of previous versions
you can create a "regression Test Set" for each version by cloning the previous version regression test set and add more tests
integration, regression, etc)
Group Tests by high-level features/business case
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Teams with strong knowledge of Jira may like to use Test Sets to organize Tests, as it is similar to have an issue linked to other issues (tests).
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Using Test Repository
Xray enables a new project area, that is available from your Project sidebar, the Test Repository. The Test Repository is a project-level Test organization feature that allows users to organize Tests hierarchically via folders.
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You're working on product v3.0 and want to do regression testing to make sure you have not broken anything. If the previous version, v2.0, had already some regression tests in a specific test set, then you can clone it and add some more tests for validating v2.0.
The Test Repository concept enables the hierarchical organization (tree-like organization) of Tests at the project level by allowing you to organize Tests in folders.
The Test Repository concept is similar to the same way you would organize your documents and files in your computer.
It is not a new issue type!
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You can use all options at the same time, taking advantage of the differences and features of each one.
Learn more about the differences in the next module.
