How Sevierty and Priority are related to each other?

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How Sevierty and Priority are related to each other?..

Answer / mohan

severity tells impact of the bug on the application.
priority tells urgency of Bug Fix.

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How Sevierty and Priority are related to each other?..

Answer / semo

Severity tells the seriousness/depth of the bug where as
Priority tells which bug should rectify first..

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How Sevierty and Priority are related to each other?..

Answer / ranjith nair

Severity->Application point of view
Priority->User point of view
-------------------------------------------
Some bugs might have high proirity,but according to
application point of view,that bugs might be of low
priority.
Ex:GUI bugs->Font,Alignment,spacing...

If a bug is severity means ,that bug will affect the entire
application.Can be a show stopper

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How Sevierty and Priority are related to each other?..

Answer / vimal raina

Rightly said sevierty is impact and priority decides how
soon it should be fixed...
genrally when sevierty is high priroty is also high but
i will like to give example where severity is low and
priority is high.

If the title bar of any website is wrriten incorrectly it
doesnt make any difference to the funtionality (low
sevierty)of the website but it has a high priority to be
rectified.

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How Sevierty and Priority are related to each other?..

Answer / shweta

Severity is related to priority I can explain this with
example say a bug is a show stopper<say application crushes
down> then its
Severity would be high <ie imact to application is high>
Priority would be High(1) <should be rectified as soon as
possible>

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How Sevierty and Priority are related to each other?..

Answer / shilpa salla

Based on the severity, priority is assigned by the developer.

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How Sevierty and Priority are related to each other?..

Answer / mohan anna university

Priority is that how serious is the bug in case of Company
point of view

Sevierty is that how serious is the bug in case of
Technical/Application point of view

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How Sevierty and Priority are related to each other?..

Answer / ch.s.m.prasad,kkd

Severity: the seriousness of the defect in terms of
functionality.

Priority : the importence of the defect in terms of customer

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