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• Have an initial status (e.g. “new”) then another when it’s in progress (e.g. “in progress”) and then another when it’s finished (e.g. “closed”)
• You may need to have an interim status if you need to review the results of a Test Execution/Plan; for Test Executions it may be quite appropriate, specially both for manual and automated testing (due to flaky tests)

Test Plan

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• Have an initial status (e.g. “new”) then another when it’s in progress (e.g. “in progress”) and then another when it’s finished (e.g. “closed”)
• You may need to have an interim status if you need to review the results of a Test Execution/ Plan; for Test Executions it may be appropriate, specially for manual testing