Whats'the difference between Seviroty and priority ..
Please answer in the follwoing way ?
1) Who will give the priority and Sevirity (ex -
client/users and testers/developers) ?
2) If the client wants to give a high importance to an
issue and for that the QA and developement don't think that
much importance then how would be the situation ?
3) If a high sevirity issue is there but another issues is
there with high priority .. Then which issue will be fixed
first and vice versa ?
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Answer / ravi148
hi friends this tulasi ravi,
Severity means impact of the bug on the functionality of an
application.testers give Severity level
priority: it was assigned by Project Manager to devlopers.
how soon developers has to fix the bug.
2)suppose client logo or spell mistakes will treated as
priority at the time of presentation, but it may have low
severity on the functionlities.
3)high priority will fix first but in real scenario both
has to fix with in 24 - 48 hrs depends on sitution.
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Answer / shravan kumar akula
Severity means the impact of a bug on that particular
application.
we have many types severity status in which we can decide
which state a bug can be -- Critical, Major , Minor , Show
Stopper, Trivial etc.
Priority - It is the importance of that bug to be fixed at
the earliest.
Status Includes - High, Medium ,Low.
In technical terms you can quote it as P0,P1,P2.
1.) For Your first questions many companies will not follow
the same process so itz difficult to say at this point who
would decide the priority / Severity as on whole few
companies follow this way Severity is decided by tester and
the priority is decided by PM / TestLead / Test Manager.
2.)See for this question the answer is very simple ..If
client is compelling you by saying that it is a High
important issue at that instance as a tester all u have to
do is go and analyse all type of doc's like BRD'S, PCR'S etc
and try to find out if that is a really an high important
one.If u feel that client was wrong with his concept then u
can mail him or talk to him and send all the relevant doc's
It could happen the second way too.. when a client says it a
high important issue than it's their priority as he need's
to be fix the issue at the earliest as it is related to
business so priority may be given by client time to time. So
u can't contradict or deny him, after all he is a client.
3.) For Your third question see you can judge it by just
knowing which one is more important to client i.e. which one
would be fixed earlier and which one little later, it all
depends upon the time constraint and the applications
constraint too.
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Answer / vinod
seviroty
Degree of impact on a system when issue occur.
Given by tester
Priority
Degree of urgency in which the corrective action should be
taken.
given by developer
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Answer / sudipto
Priority is how important is the issue at a perticular
point/duration of time
E.g: Fixing of a bug in balance sheet during year end
Development of a division wise performance report for
chairman of the company
completion of go live critical developments
In most of the cases the priority is defined by the users
or the PM, delivery manager ...
priority may be very high, high, medium and low
Severity is the extent/degree of impact of a problem on the
system/program or other functionalities of the business
Generally defined by the Functional , technical, QA &
testers after conducting a through impact analysis
Severity may be critical (show stopper),major and minor.
E.g: incomplete testing (positive and negative) of the
individual developments is highly severe as they may have
high impact on other functionalities while conducting
integration testing
Priority is associated with an incident and severity is
associated with a problem
Production server down or network failure is both high
priority and high severity as business will stop
functioning and there may be huge financial loss incurred.
Answer to Q-2: Analyze the program to find out the impact
that it will have on the daily transactions and the user
base that will get effected by that. Discuss with the team
and PM and according take the decission.if impact is high
and the risk is high in near future then go and fix it else
convey the message to the client by giving the effort
estimation.
Answer-3: In both the case analyze due to which the the
business process is getting effected highly and for what
duration and then take the call accordingly. All depends on
the type of issue.
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Answer / sri
Severity refers the bug impact on the application
Q1)Decides by testers
Priority refers how sever the bug is and how soon it has to
be fixed.
Q1)Answer
Severity decides by testers
Priority decides by team leads or managers.
Q2)answer
In real time scenario users priorities are justified
first.suppose if user is giving importance something like
cosmetic fixes then Dev and QA Can convince the customer
that that we can fix it later bcoz of other critical issues
we are facing.
Q3)depends on the severity, the bug can be fixed.for example
if the application itself crashing with out opening that
has to be fixed no matter what other priorities are there.so
the most sever bugs are most prioritized bugs.
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Answer / xyz
hi shavan kumar,
ur answer is excellent,if anyone give the answer this way
interviewer will not get a chance to ask further question
on this topic...
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Answer / nandini pai
Sometime client are not that much educated to give priority and severity os it is always decided by SA or BA
First High priority issue need to be fixed
because even High Severity issue can have low priority
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Answer / rohith dell r&d centre.
Severity is something which comes from the testers/end
users, which inturn depends upon the impact of particular
issue on the functionality of the project.
Priority is something, for which Developement is
accountable for,in which the importance to fix the issue is
decided considering lot of factors.
Rohith DELL R&D Centre.
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