how will you decide defect severity & priority?
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Answer / aatish jawalkar
Severity is seriousness of defect wrt functionality.
Priority is the importance of defect wrt customer
requirment.
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Answer / ravindra
severity is nothing but seriousness of the bug,depending on
the functionality we give the severity.
we give the priority to the bug depending upon the
customerrequirement.
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Answer / anitha
Severity: What is the impact or effect of the bug over the
business of customer is called severoity..
Priority:How fast the bug is to be fixed..there are
different levels High,Medium,Low
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Answer / dave
severity: severity of a bug means that how it affects the
functionality of that application. Testers usually
determines the severity of a bug...
priority: priority depends on the severity of a bug. If the
bug is a showstopper, it will be given the highest
priority...likewise priority decreases with the severity...
showstopper has to be fixed within 2hrs...critical within
4hrs...major within 8hr s and it goes on...
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Answer / logu
severity: is decided by the Impact of the bug in the application.
priority : is depends on severity and Release time
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Answer / ravi76xy
Severity is decided by the User requirement, Priority is decided by the time guide
lines to acomplish the task
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Answer / amar
defect Severity represents how badly the functionality is
failed and how the impact is shown on the system functionlaiites
whereas priority is importance of the defect and its
resolution by the developer
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Answer / hari krishna.y
Severity:
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1.Severity is nothing but seriousness of the Defect.
2.Severity is assigned by the tester.
3.severity depends upon the functionality of the application.
4.Actually the severity is 4 types
1.Critical 2.Major 3.Minor 4.Suggestion
Priority:
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1.Priority is nothing but the sequence to be rectified.
2.Priority is assigned by developer.
3.The developer will rectify the defects based on the severity.
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Answer / sinduja.j
Priority : Is the order in which developer has to fix the bug.
Severity : How seriously the bug is impacting the application.
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Answer / dilip
seviority: describes the seriousness of the defects
priorty:in which order defects need to be rectified
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