what is severity and what is priority

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what is severity and what is priority..

Answer / kalpalata

severity defines the importance of defect with respective
to functional point of view.(functional effect)
Where as priority defines the importance of defect
with respective to customer point of view.(business effect)

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what is severity and what is priority..

Answer / rajkumar

Severity- Severity defines the effect of the bug if occurred on the application.

Priority- Priority defines the how important that bug is and in which or we should fix that bug.

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what is severity and what is priority..

Answer / mahalakshmi

SEVIORITY DESCRIBES THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE DEFECTS. IT IS
CLASSIFIED INTO 4 TYPES:
FATAL
MAJOR
MINOR
SUGGESTIONS

PRIORITY DESCRIBES THE SEQUENCE IN WHICH THE DEFECTS NEED
TO BE RECTIFIED. IT IS ALSO CLASSIFEID INTO 4 TYPES:
CRITICAL
HIGH
MEDIUM
LOW.

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what is severity and what is priority..

Answer / mudaseer

severity:think if the application crashes then it is high severity.

severity:seriousness of the bug

priority: we are developing an application it is deal drongo

client ask to change the name to deal piazza so we have to name the application as deal piazza this is high priority

priority means urgency to fix the bug

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