Priority & Severity
Priority : How soon / when a defect should be fixed?
Severity : How bad, the defect has impact on the application?
Suppose u have the website “Google” and the home page is having two fields “Username” and “Password”.
Case 1: If the user try to login after entering the credentials and is not able to do so – High Priority High Severity.
Case 2: If the letter ‘o’ is missing from the website logo ‘Google’ hampering the organisation’s reputation but not affecting any of the functionality – High Priority Low Severity
Case 3: If the help option from the browser is displaying blank on clicking it – Low Priority High Severity (From functional point of view this error is sever but from a practical standpoint, not every one opening the browser will go for the help option)
Case 4: On logging into any website if the home page is not displaying a comma (‘,’) between two words which it should have displayed
(cosmetic issue) – Low Priority Low Severity.
Who decides Priority & Severity?That depends on the project; In general Severity is decided by the tester and the priority is decided by the Business ( Managers, some times includes the inputs from developers & Testers)
Priority : How soon / when a defect should be fixed?
Severity : How bad, the defect has impact on the application?
Suppose u have the website “Google” and the home page is having two fields “Username” and “Password”.
Case 1: If the user try to login after entering the credentials and is not able to do so – High Priority High Severity.
Case 2: If the letter ‘o’ is missing from the website logo ‘Google’ hampering the organisation’s reputation but not affecting any of the functionality – High Priority Low Severity
Case 3: If the help option from the browser is displaying blank on clicking it – Low Priority High Severity (From functional point of view this error is sever but from a practical standpoint, not every one opening the browser will go for the help option)
Case 4: On logging into any website if the home page is not displaying a comma (‘,’) between two words which it should have displayed
(cosmetic issue) – Low Priority Low Severity.
Who decides Priority & Severity?That depends on the project; In general Severity is decided by the tester and the priority is decided by the Business ( Managers, some times includes the inputs from developers & Testers)
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