What is severity and priority?Give some examples of
severity and priorty and high severity & low priority and
viceverse and also explain each.

Answer Posted / 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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October 20, 2005 07:32:29
Rajesh

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October 21, 2005 05:24:07
Arif

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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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