“Priority” is associated with scheduling, and “severity” is associated with standards.
“Priority” means something is afforded or deserves prior attention; a precedence
established by order of importance (or urgency). “Severity” is the state or quality of
being severe; severe implies adherence to rigorous standards or high principles and
often suggests harshness; severe is marked by or requires strict adherence to
rigorous standards or high principles, e.g. a severe code of behavior. The words
priority and severity do come up in bug tracking. A variety of commercial, problemtracking/
management software tools are available. These tools, with the detailed
input of software test engineers, give the team complete information so developers
can understand the bug, get an idea of its ‘severity’, reproduce it and fix it. The fixes
are based on project ‘priorities’ and ‘severity’ of bugs. The ‘severity’ of a problem is
defined in accordance to the customer’s risk assessment and recorded in their
selected tracking tool. A buggy software can ‘severely’ affect schedules, which, in
turn can lead to a reassessment and renegotiation of ‘priorities’.
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severity: This is assigned by the tester.severity of a defect is set based on the issue's seriousness..it can be stated as mentioned
show stopper:4,Major defect:3,Minor defect:2,Cosmetic:1
setting values for these four categories can be again defined by the organisation based on their views.
showstopper: this have a higher severity as u cannot proceed further testing with the application testing.
Major: If there are any main defect based on the functionality .
Minor: If there is any error in the functionality of one object under one functionality
Cosmetic: any error based on the look and feel of the system,or improper location of the object(something based on the design of the web page)
Priority: this will be set by the team lead or the project lead.
based on the severity and the time constraint that the module has the priority will be set
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