Thread: Which is given first preference priority or seviority

Originally Posted by supraja.ivatury

When we come across a bug, it is given both priority and seviority. Now on what basis bug is cleared? Which is given first preference priority or seviority? In my view seviority is given first prefarence.

See priority decides on the basis of severity and time schedule.So, by default more stress goes to severity, but if it has been assigned any priority then that will followed.

Hi,

Look into "Geeks Talk > Software Testing > Testing Issues> difference between severity and priority" asked by sunny_love on 6/1/2006. You can easily understand and get the right answer from that discussion.

Hello aardvax and smartarun ,

First read the question carefully...

When we come across a bug, it is given both priority and seviority. Now on what basis bug is cleared? Which is given first preference priority or seviority? In my view seviority is given first prefarence.

Now give to the point answers, ok.

Tester assigned the severity of the bug.Now tester works completed.Now it's the task of CCB to assign priority.And bug will fix according to that.So, who got the preference (as the question is?) for fixing bugs, of course priority.

One more thing to disclose is that severity once assigned never change, but priority can change during bug fixing process.I hope now it should clear to all and it is more than sufficient discussion on this question.

Originally Posted by jainbrijesh

Hello aardvax and smartarun ,

First read the question carefully...

When we come across a bug, it is given both priority and seviority. Now on what basis bug is cleared? Which is given first preference priority or seviority? In my view seviority is given first prefarence.

Now give to the point answers, ok.

Tester assigned the severity of the bug.Now tester works completed.Now it's the task of CCB to assign priority.And bug will fix according to that.So, who got the preference (as the question is?) for fixing bugs, of course priority.

One more thing to disclose is that severity once assigned never change, but priority can change during bug fixing process.I hope now it should clear to all and it is more than sufficient discussion on this question.

Hi Jain
I really praise you for your explanation of the question which was asked...
and obviously it is the job of the developers to seek for the preference of fixing the bug according to the priority given..but we do not go ahead in development of a quality product if testers and developers are at logger heads...i just tried that a conformance is necessary in interpretaion of the terms used in every organisation...and priorities are assigned based on severiites...offcourse when priorities have been decided such that testers can tolerate the delay or whtsoever in case of a raised and opened bug...then prority is the first preference to fix the bug....like a straight mathematical question.....
thanks for your post

and you know the best thing
we alll are saying the same thing

Originally Posted by varmakub

I happend to hear that my friend who is working in one of MNC to whom they don't have seviority while logging the bug (means the option is disabled in QC). So it would be based on the company and the process which they follow.

Do I know the name of that MNC?

Because as I know severity column can never left blank in bug reporting.It's very important as later decisions depend on it.

Well, I am not too accustomed to bug reporting, but I tend to agree with jainbrijesh. Severity column is most important. I also know that the bugs are prioritized based on the severity level of the bug.

It is obvious that a bug with high severity will have high priority. So, at the end of it all it doesn't really matter. If a bug has high priority, it also means that it rather severe(Except for timeline based bugs like, if the bug is not rectified within a period of time, then it might have severe business impacts though it is of less severity now).

So, at the end of the day, bugs are fixed on priority basis. And how the prioritites are fixed? Based on severity -in most of the cases.

So, aardvax is right. We are all telling the same thing
Hope this helped settling the issue.

Cheers!
Kalayama

Originally Posted by varmakub

I totally disagree My Friend !!!
QC Administrator has all the rights to disable few columns as well as setting mandatory fields to the existing columns in QC. So in this case Severity can be left blank if it’s not a mandatory :-) as set by the QC Admin

Hello varmakub,

I am not saying that it can't be done.
What I am saying is that it's not looking right logically.
If we don't have the severity, It means all bugs will be fixed and all bugs are equal severe, which is not possible in real scenario.

That's it.Otherwise, nothing is impossible, because impossible itself says "I M Possible".

Originally Posted by varmakub

My Friend !!!
They are categorizing the defects only based on the Priority !!!

Ok,

Then will you tell me, how they priorities the bugs?

I mean they are not using severity then what's the base for priority of fixing bugs?

Originally Posted by varmakub

Dear friend let me close this issues !!!
The priority which inherit the severity here my friend. It works as same as severity but as we give Sev 1, in the same way they give priority, but the thing here severity is not visible.

Ok,

May be I got you right.

You mean to say, tester gives the priority directly, no any severity and that priority is followed by developers to fix the bug.

Am I right?

Originally Posted by varmakub

YES :-) tester gives the priority directly. !!!

Then you should say this earlier in the post.

Still it's a good discussion with you.
Ya, it is possible, even in some companies tester himself assigns both severity and priority, but of course priority may change.