What is severity and priority?Give some examples of
severity and priorty and high severity & low priority and
viceverse and also explain each.
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Answer / venu
severity : severity is how severe the functionality
affected by the bug.
priority : priority is how quickly the bug is fixed.
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Answer / amit verma
Severity shows seriousness of defect with respect to
functionality.Severity is always raised by TESTER.
Priority shows importance of the defect and it is
raised/decide by DEVELOPER.
For EX. 4 High Severity & Low Priority
1.)In the application,a page is rarely accessed but its
output is wrong.
2.)In application,a print option has the functionality to
print the current page.Its works fine in simple way but if
user gave command to print the page from 10 to 25 or can
say in special case then page get crash down.
For EX. Low Severity & High Priority
-On the Login window,the spelling of CANCEL button is shown
as CANNEL.
Plz correct me if i m wrong.
U can mail me at amit8573@gmail.com
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Answer / feroz
sevirity:1.its related to bussiness purpose
2.how much the raised bud effect to application
priority:its related to functionality
2.how much soon we have to fix the bug
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Answer / charu garg
severity is how much danger is bug.
it is decided by the tester.
(critical/high/medium/low)
priority is how much dangerious in the bug.
it is decided by the project manegment.
(critical/ high/medium low)
example of high-severity& low-priority is shoping ons
online i.e
on cash counter machine is not accepte cradit card i.e
seviority is high
but cash pament is avelable ie. priority is low.
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Answer / kapil
Severity(s)-how badly defect affects the functionality of
software.
priority(p)-how quickly the defect fixed with an immediate
effect.
High P High S-Software is not getting installed
High p low s-There is spelling mistake in the name of
organisation.
low P high s-Clicking anywhere on window software crashes.
low p low s-Gramatical mistakes in the statements written.
(if it is not correct pls contact me !
gonjarikapil@gmail.com)
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Answer / vikas patil
Severity-
1.Severity means how bugs badely impact on A system or
Software product.
2it is decide by Tester
3.it may be High,medium,low
priority-
1.Means the order to get them fixed.
2.It is decided by developer
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Answer / nagender
Severity is seriousness of defect wrt to customer
requirement where as priority is how soon the defect needs
to be fixed i.e timelines
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1.Given an example for High severity and Low Priority?
High Priority and Low severity??
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Hi All
Pls find the answer
High seviority and low priority.
When the application has critical problem and it has to be
solved after a month then we can say it as high seviority
and low priority.
low seviority and high priority
When the application has trivial problem ie (less
affected) and it has to be solved within a day then we can
say it as low seviority and high priority
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Hi All
Pls find the answer
High seviority and low priority:
When the application has critical problem and it has to be
solved after a month then we can say it as high seviority
and low priority.
low seviority and high priority:
When the application has trivial problem ie (less affected)
and it has to be solved within a day then we can say it as
low seviority and high priority
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