what is difference between severity and priority
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Answer / swamy
severity : the impact of bug on the application
priority : how soon it shoul be fixed.
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Answer / tester
severity is nature of the bug.
priority is when the bug is needs to fixed
it may depends on severity or maynot..
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Answer / jyothsna
severity means how much current defect effect remaining
functonality.
Priority means At the time of resolving functionality ,whch
come first & which come next.
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Severity means seriousness of defect with respect to
functionality
Priority means importance of defect with resepct to customer
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Answer / sriman
Severity means seriousness of defect with respect to
functionality
Priority means importance of defect with respect to customer
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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.
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, problem tracking/ 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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Answer / anish
severity:-how serious the bug is.
priority:-how soon the bug must be fixed.
Eg:suppose thers a spelling mistake its severity is low but
its priority is high as it might happen tht a user will not
able to understand wht is written n might enter a wrong input.
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Answer / meena
Seriousness of the defect on the application is Severity.
Priority is given according to the severity of the defect.
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