Difference between Severity & Priority?

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Difference between Severity & Priority?..

Answer / james

Defect Severity determines the defect's effect on the
application where as Defect Priority determines the defect
urgency of repair.
Severity is given by Testers and Priority by Developers

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Difference between Severity & Priority?..

Answer / sara

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Severity - impact of the bug on the functionally
priority - order of important of the bug

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Difference between Severity & Priority?..

Answer / mukesh singh

Severity is from Business perspective and Priority is from Testing perspective.

SEVERITY of a Business Scenario is decided at the beginning of the project. If one business Scenario is very important for the client, any defect in that scenario would be assigned the severity 1 even if this defect's priority is very low(i.e. not blocking any thing).

PRIORITY is decided based upon how the defect is impacting our testing. If a defect is blocking our entire testing its priority would be 1 even if its severity might be 3(i.e. not an important scenario).

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Difference between Severity & Priority?..

Answer / uma

severity means what is the impact of that bug on that
application..
priority means what is the effect of tat bug on business
application..

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