What is a show stopper?

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What is a show stopper?..

Answer / sujatha

Show stopper is a bug which does not let you to carry out
the testing process any further.

Is This Answer Correct ?    33 Yes 7 No

What is a show stopper?..

Answer / chandra shekhar bhattarai

It is a severity of a bug.U cannot able to test the
application further

Is This Answer Correct ?    23 Yes 3 No

What is a show stopper?..

Answer / bhagya

Show stopper is a critical issue(Bug), which will not let
the tester proceed with testing the application. Unless and
otherwise show stopper is fixed, testers cannot do the
further testing.

Is This Answer Correct ?    9 Yes 2 No

What is a show stopper?..

Answer / rafi

Show stopper is critical bug severity 1 and we cannot test
further lets take an small example

if suppose anyone want to check their mail using yahoo or
gmail etc the moment to enter your user id and password,
the application(website)should open to check all the mails,
but inthis case you cannot see the application it will
throw the error. so the user cannot go further that type of
error is call show stopper

Is This Answer Correct ?    9 Yes 6 No

What is a show stopper?..

Answer / cat

A showstopper is a bug which most of the times crashes the
system being tested or the operating sytem itself

Is This Answer Correct ?    3 Yes 1 No

What is a show stopper?..

Answer / sachin lawande

Show Stopper is the bug who break the functionality of the
application.
ex. Suppose when u click on the link or button , it will be
crash the application like "server not found page" and give
some server error explanation and u cannot proceed further
for testing.
These bug have high priority and high severity in testing cycle.

Is This Answer Correct ?    3 Yes 1 No

What is a show stopper?..

Answer / prapulla

show stopper means to stop hte tester to move further which
means coming out of application that is called show stopper

Is This Answer Correct ?    3 Yes 2 No

What is a show stopper?..

Answer / shyam

Showstopper is nothing but critcal bug

Is This Answer Correct ?    11 Yes 11 No

What is a show stopper?..

Answer / suresh

I Appreciate Sachin as He is Giving Meaning and the Good Example as well

Pls All Try To Explain with a Good Example what ever the Question May Be..
SO that beginners can understand Easily..

Is This Answer Correct ?    1 Yes 1 No

What is a show stopper?..

Answer / reejusri

Showstopper is a bug which having highest priorty and
highest severity.
If a S/W or application contains any showstopper bug, it
cant be release into market.

Is This Answer Correct ?    3 Yes 10 No

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