Severity and Priority of Defects

Generally we have to set the Severity and Priority level for a Defect. Severity level will be set by the Testing Team and the Priority level will be set by the Development Team.

Severity means how much severe is the particular defect in the application (i.e.) how it affects the functionality of the application

Priority means the importance and urgency to fix the defect by the developers (i.e.) which defect should be fixed first and which should be fixed in later versions.

There and some levels in severity and priority, they are as follows….

Severity levels:

Trivial
Minor
Major
Critical
Block

Priority Levels:

Low
Medium
High
Urgent
Immediate

The Severity and Priority levels must vary depends upon the company and the defect tracking tool used by the company.

Some Examples for the priority levels….

Low Priority: Spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, Textual Errors, Orphan pages, broken links, GUI errors,

High Priority: Wrong Functionality, Applications Crashes, Errors

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