Who will be assigning severity and priority for a bug?

Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback



Who will be assigning severity and priority for a bug?..

Answer / dinesh kumar

As tester itself has rights to give severity and priority
for a bug. Test lead will verify the severity and priority
levels which assigned by tester. If any thing which is not
satisfied by him, will change the levels accordingly.

Is This Answer Correct ?    11 Yes 5 No

Who will be assigning severity and priority for a bug?..

Answer / sagar

It is usually the tester who has the authority for
assignigng the severity and priority for a bug.

Is This Answer Correct ?    2 Yes 1 No

Who will be assigning severity and priority for a bug?..

Answer / kesavan

Tester has rights to assign the severity and priority for a
bug.Test lead from testing side and Development manager
from development side will review the bug status,if the bug
is really critical and assignment is correct it will be
accepted,if bug is not critical and it is marked high
severity/priority,respective tester will be questioned by
his/her team lead,status will be changed by team lead
accordingly

Is This Answer Correct ?    2 Yes 1 No

Who will be assigning severity and priority for a bug?..

Answer / anil

Severity is assigned by Tester
Priority is assigned by the developer

Is This Answer Correct ?    6 Yes 7 No

Who will be assigning severity and priority for a bug?..

Answer / akshay

Usually tester doesn't not assign priority he only assigns
severity .
Only test manager allocates the priority of the bug.

pls correct me if i m wrong

Thanks
Akshay
mail me @ : akshay_bali2001@yahoo.co.in

Is This Answer Correct ?    3 Yes 7 No

Post New Answer

More Manual Testing Interview Questions

What do you like about Windows?

2 Answers  


what is difference between metric and report ?

6 Answers   Covansys, Polaris,


How does one do Ad-hoc Testing?

5 Answers  


11.what are two of your weaknesses?

1 Answers   Satyam, TCS, Tech Mahindra, VJIL Consulting,


What are the main key components in web applications and client and server applications? And explain the differences between them?

0 Answers  






what r the fields present in requirement tracability metrice (RTM)?please explain each and every field as i m not aware.

3 Answers  


what type of report that you print it out from your defect tracking too when you go for the bug triage meetings? Thanks

1 Answers  


Can anyone explain me these 3 techniques with an example? 1).Equalent Class Partision 2).Cause-Effect Graph analysis 3).Error Guessing.

3 Answers  


write testcase for print option using mswod

1 Answers   Bally Technologies,


Am asked in interview that How are u going to write test cases? I replied him that we refer to usecase diagrams and the requirements documents to write test case. Did i replied him anything wrong?

7 Answers  


what is called testware?

2 Answers  


Case study like you have been assigned in a team which going through a crucial phase of the project. Then how you can save your project to release on time without any defect leakageā€¦.

2 Answers   ABC,


Categories