Severity and priority

Question

How severity and priority are related to each other?

Sean Stewart · Answer

According to my knowledge Severity: the seriousness of the defect in terms of functionality. Priority : the importance of the defect in terms of customer

Satyapriya Nayak · Answer

Hi Sonakshi Normal 0 Priority means Importance of the defect with respect to customer requirement. Severity means Seriousness of the defect with respect to functionality Severity: 1. This is assigned by the Test Engineer 2. This is to say how badly the deviation that is occurring is affecting the other modules of the build or release. Priority: 1. This is assigned by the Developer. 2. This is to say how soon the bug as to be fixed in the main code so that it pass the basic requirement. The code is to generate some values with some valid input conditions. The priority will be assigned so based on the following conditions: It is not accepting any value It is accepting value but output is in non-defined format (say Unicode Characters). Thanks