Keep requirements, tests and defect in the same project - The All-in-One approach

You can use a single project to manage your Requirements and Defects, Test-related issues as well as all your Test Executions.

To enable this approach you need to perform the following actions as admin:

Create Project	You may not need to create a new project.  You can simply add Xray Types to our existing project
Enabling Requirement Coverage
Enabling Xray Issue Types
Project Types	Single project that is a Requirement Project & a Test Project at the same time

Don't mix my Requirements and Defects with Tests

If you already have a Jira project for managing Requirements and Defects and don't want to have any tests nor executions in this project, you can create a separate companion project just for testing purposes.

To enable this approach you need to perform the following actions as admin:

Create Project	Create a Project for Testing Purposes
Enabling Requirement Coverage	At Requirement Project
Enabling Xray Issue Types	At Testing Project
Project Types	1 Requirement Project 1 Testing Project

Dedicated repository for Tests

Another common use case for Xray is to have a dedicated project for Test (and Pre-Condition and Test Set) issues. Test Executions are the responsibility of other project(s). This separation allows to manage permissions more effectively, so maybe only a few testers have permission to write tests and others only have permission to execute.

Of course, this use case can also be combined with the previous one by having separate projects for managing Requirements and Defects.

To enable this approach you need to perform the following actions as admin:

Create Project	Create 1 Project with Tests Create 1 Project with Test Executions
Enabling Requirement Coverage	At Requirement Project
Enabling Xray Issue Types	At 2 Testing Projects
Project Types	1 Requirement Project 2 Testing Project