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title: "Executing a Testing Session for a Manual Test"
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> ❌ **Jira & Xray integration**
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> ❌ This feature is only available to Jira & Xray users. You need to integrate the Exploratory Testing App with Jira, check out how at [Connecting with Jira](https://getxraydocs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/XEA/pages/43483526).

# Performing a manual testing session

After creating a [new session for an existing manual test](https://getxraydocs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/XEA/pages/43483554), it's now time to execute the testing session.

> ℹ️ **Execute a Manual Xray Test**
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> ## Ending a session
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> > ⚠️ - If you click **End session** before you define a final test status for each step, a new popup will be presented to you before the session manager window appears, to know if you want to end the session without all the steps being executed or not
> > ⚠️ - If you define a final status for each step the first point described does not happen
> > ⚠️ - The final status considered by the app is the final status defined in your Jira instance at the menu **Manage Apps → Xray → Test Statuses**.
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