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The Agile Testing Quadrants (by Brian Marick & Lisa Crispin) provide a way to group different kinds of testing in 4 quadrants, considering . This approach considers whether they are business or technology facing, and whether they are mostly used to support the team and guide development or to critique the product instead.

Quadrants are numbered although their number is just a mere reference to be used between team members.

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What is clear from this diagram is that Tests can either be manual, automated or you even can also use some tools to help you perform certain types of tests (e.g. for load testing).

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Xray may be used to manage all sorts of Tests and , have visibility of their results, and see how they impact on the related stories/epics.

In order to perform testing from the fourth quadrant (i.e. Q4) , you may use whatever tools you want; likewise. Likewise, for implementing automated tests you may use whatever automation framework covers best your coversyour needs, including Gherkin based ones (e.g. Cucumber, Behave, SpecFlow) among others. Xray does not enforce or add restrictions in using a specific tool whatsoever, thus your team can choose what they think is best and still track your testing progress in Xray.