How you assign severity for a defect?

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How you assign severity for a defect?..

Answer / dhanalakshmi

Severity means seriouness of a defect.
Severity levels are critical, major, minor.

Critical : Its going to abort the application.I.e when user
clicks on Register link in a home page,then Run time error
page is displayed.

Major : Funtionality of an application is not working.
I.e when user fills the registeration form. If that details
doesn't entered into the Database

Minor: User interface releated issues.like look and
feel,Typo's and Grammar's issues.

Based on this severity level, Tester can assign serverity
for a defect

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How you assign severity for a defect?..

Answer / sriram

Severity always can be considered w.r.t functionality
i.e "seriousness of defect w.r.t functinality " is severity

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