As said in the beginning of this tutorial, Tests are Jira issues because of this "Editing" an issue will be the same as you do for standard issue types.

Using the Edit Issue dialog box

The Edit Issue dialog box is similar to the Create Issue dialog box, and can be accessed through the following steps:

Click the Edit button (at the top-left of the 'view issue' page) to open the Edit Issue dialog box.

Modify your Test's details in the appropriate fields of the Edit Issue dialog box General tab.


Have a look at Manual tests for specifics details on how to handle the manual steps.

Inline Editing Xray Tests

Xray Test issue sections support inline editing similar to Jira native and custom fields inline edit. This prevents full page reloads when modifying fields.

Below is a example of the available editing inline fields for a Test of type "Cucumber."





Changing the Type of a Test



In the Global Preferences, Xray allows you to configure if a test definition is deleted or not. - You may not have access to this in your instance as this is restricted to the Jira administrator.


If enabled, the previous Info details will be deleted.

 

Otherwise, the info details will not be deleted, and it'll be possible to undo the Test Type change operation and keep the previous information.

Additionally, in both cases, because each pre-condition must be of the same Type of the Test, any associated Pre-Conditions will be lost.