1.what is the deference between priority and severity?

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1.what is the deference between priority and severity?..

Answer / s.babu

“Priority” is associated with scheduling,
that mean which bug is going to be fixed first,like this
scheduling the bugs according to the seriousness of the bugs.

“severity” is associated with standards,
describes the seriousness or impact of the bug,that mean how
the bug may affect the application,
Types of severity:
Blocker: No further testing work can be done.
Critical: Application crash, Loss of data.
Major: Major loss of function.
Minor: minor loss of function.
cosmetic: Some UI enhancements.

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1.what is the deference between priority and severity?..

Answer / rohit

Priority is about when to fix a bug. It is a function of Development team in consultation with testing team.

Severity is about how critical is the bug for functionality of the system.
eg of severity are enhancement, minor, major, critical

Eg of High Severity Low Priority:
Suppose we have designed 100 Test cases. out of these 100, 25 test cases have a step in description which if executed makes the system unstable. Now this is a high severity (Critical) bug, because when executed our system gets crashed and customer may loose data etc as it is absolutely a valid step to execute. But since we have 75 remaining test cases whcih can be executed before we again concentrate on these 25, it will be high severity and low priority.

Eg of Low severity and High Priority:
Out of the remaining 75 test cases we find a bug in a step for all these 75 test case which has a bug - A minor bug which customer might never notice. This is high priority as we are not able to proceed with testing until the bug is fixed. So it is low severity and high priority

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1.what is the deference between priority and severity?..

Answer / swapna

Severity means how serious the bug is

Priority means which bug needs to be fixed first , Priority
will be given by the test manager

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1.what is the deference between priority and severity?..

Answer / prasad

Severity:
Seriousness of the bug in terms of functionally
Priority:
Importance of the bug with respect client requirement.
4 types of levels will be there.
1.High priority and high severity.
2.High priority and low severity.
3.low priority and high severity.
4.Low priority and low severity.

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1.what is the deference between priority and severity?..

Answer / sunithayagnamurthy

seviority is the importence of the defect interms of
functionality
priority is the importence the defect or bug interms of
customer requirment

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1.what is the deference between priority and severity?..

Answer / ashwin

Severity means how much serious will take about the bug
based on our functionality
priority means how the defect will efect the customer
expectations

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1.what is the deference between priority and severity?..

Answer / kumaravel.kv

Severity defines, seriousness of defectes with respect to
functional point view.
Priority defines, importance of defects with customer point
of view.

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1.what is the deference between priority and severity?..

Answer / lakshmi

Severity is the impact of the bug in an application and
priority is the rate at which we fix the bug.

Eg high severity and low priority

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1.what is the deference between priority and severity?..

Answer / santhosh

Severity means the seriouness of the bug with respect to
functionality.
whereas priority means the seriousness of the bug with
respect to customer.

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