What is Severity and Priority and who will decide what?
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Answer / vinod
Severity : defines how critical bug is (seriousness of the
bug) based on functionality and can be set by QA team.
Priority : defines how fast it needs to be implemented
(based on time line) and can be set by QA manager / Project
Manager
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Seviority:defines impact of the bug or how a bad bug is
called Seviority.
Priority:importance to fix that bug
seviority will be decided by the testers and priority will
be dicided by PM or TL in some companies by testers also.
This is the practise following in the company. if the
deadlines r very short tester needs to assign the priority.
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Answer / kishore
severity is defined as how serious the defect is is
defined in terms of severity.
priority is defined as in which order the defects has to be
rectified is defined in terme of priority.
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Answer / meenakshi
Severity is how severe the bug is and how it is effecting
technically.it is given b y testers.
Priority is urgency of fixing the bug.Priority is given
by teamlead because he will b knowing the schedules of the
developers.
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Answer / divya nandana.b
seviority : it tell about the impact of the bug , i.e how
much it affect the application.severioty is decided by
tester
priority:
tell how much urgency a bug can be fixed . Priotity is
decided by developer
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