what is severity and priority?

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what is severity and priority?..

Answer / suresh.chaluvadi

Hi
Here are the Different opinions on severity and priority
posted by different users on allinterview earlier.

1.Severity means seriousness of the Bug..Priority means
which one should rectify first..

2. severity means How badly it is affecting on function.
Priority means How important it is to fix that bug.

3.
Severity - Impact of bug in the application.
Priority - Effect of bug in the application.

4.Severity - Impact of defect on the product.Severity types
is given by testers.
Priority - Depends on Business logic.Proority is given by
business people or product manager in the company.

5. severity-the seriousness of the defect with respect to
functionality
priority- thre importance of the defect with respect to
customersite

6.Severity:Means how severe the bug is and to what extent
its affecting the application
Priority:When we want the developer to fix the bug
E.g:if P1 is the priority given to a bug then the developer
should fix the bug at the earliest

7.severity is nothing but impact of the bug on the
application

priority is nothing but importance to resolve the bug from
customer point of view

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what is severity and priority?..

Answer / chaitanya kumar c.

Seviarity = it relative to impact of the defect.(Immediate
stop, High,medium , Low)

Priority = It relative to importance of defect with
respective to the Customer.(High,Medium , Low)

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what is severity and priority?..

Answer / srinivas kumar

Hi,

First lest me explain about the topics
seviarity: It tell about the importance of the bug raised
in testing process. The seviarity of the bugs can be
classifed into five types they are

1.Blocker: This bug prevents developers from testing or
developing the software.

2.Critical: The software crashes, hangs, or causes you to
lose data.

3.Major: A major feature is broken.

4.Minor: Minor loss of function, and there's an easy work
around.

5.Cosmatic: It's a bug that should be fixed.

6.Suggestion: Request for new feature or enhancement

When come to Priority: It tells the which bug
has to given first prefernce to rectify the bug

1.Immediate: It has togiven first preference.(Critical &
Block).
2. At the earliest: resolve the defect at the earliest on
priority (Major & Minor).
3. Normal: Resolve the defect (Cosmetic)
4. Later: Could be resolved at later stages.(suggestions)

So, Friends I think Priority can be decided on
the Seviarity

Any Doubts pls contact me my
id:dsrinivas1982@gmail.com

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what is severity and priority?..

Answer / reshmaya

Severity:
- How the issue affects the system?
- Determined by the Tester
- Based on the Issue, and how it affects the system.

Priority:
- How important the issue is!
- Decided by the Client/Project Manager.
- Based on the Customer Requirement.

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what is severity and priority?..

Answer / siva

Sevarity:
Sevarity means how instence is based on defects, it
is functionality based, TL will assign it, sevarity is
critical, major, mino.

Priority:
It determaine in the order in which defect should be
fixed, it is Time based, TL will assignit, priority is
High, Medium, Low.

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what is severity and priority?..

Answer / sameera

Sevirity is one which determines the Functional
Requirements.
Priority is one which determines the User Requirements

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what is severity and priority?..

Answer / boopathi raja c

severity: how much that is going to affect the software or application

priority:How fast the developer needs to fix that issue

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