Organizing your tests is a crucial part of your daily testing activities. Your Since your project may have hundreds or thousands of tests so , it is imperative that you must organize them efficiently , so you can find relevant tests quickly.

Actually, you can organize your tests in many ways, namely While many organize using labels, components, priority, etc. But organizing tests this way may not be sufficient nor scale accordingly with , they are usually insufficient and would not scale according to your needs.

Xray provides two different but very effective ways for of organizing effectively Tests:

1. using Test Sets issues (this was the only available option before v3.0);
2. using the Test Repository (since v3.0); 
   
   

Xray has a specific issue type for grouping tests: the Test Set. This is a simple way to create different groups of Tests; they're simple basically flat lists of Tests. You may have as many Test Sets as you wish and a Test may be included in multiple Test Sets. Test Sets are great if you want to have full control over certain groups of Tests, so you . You can easily pick select them whenever you want (e.g. for , when creating Test Plans or Test Executions). Test Sets can also be used as a dynamic way to cover requirements.

In On the other hand, the Test Repository provides a tree-like way organization at the project level, where users . Users can hierarchically organize Tests within folders and sub-folders. This folder like concept is common in some tools and resembles user's own files/documention organization in their computer's operating system. More info on usage details can be found in Working with the Test Repository.

Thus, the first thing you have to decide is to whether use Test Sets or the Test Repository, or even both. For this, we recommend to look at some pros and cons concerning the adoption of Test Sets vs the Test Repository as To decide whether to use one or the other, we recommend that you review some pros and cons detailed in Overview of the Test Repository. For some usersclients, the question may be as simple as "Would our team prefer what their test team prefers: organizing tests in lists list or an hierarchical approach insteadform?".

We also have put together some tips that might give you some guidance on the different approaches you may choose to adopt concerning tests organizationhow to choose the right approach.

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