Severity
- Bug causes system crash or data loss.
- Bug causes major functionality or other severe problems; product crashes in obscure cases.
- Bug causes minor functionality problems, may affect «fit and finish».
- Bug contains typos, unclear wording or error messages in low visibility fields.
Priority
- Must fix as soon as possible. Bug is blocking further progress in this area.
- Should fix soon, before product release.
- Fix if time; somewhat trivial. May be postponed.
Para cerrar el artículo, puede valer la pena no utilizar el campo severidad. Son pocas las situaciones donde sirve tenerlo, contrastando con el tiempo y esfuerzo que se necesita para definir el valor y utilizarlo. Si a uno le piden utilizar el valor de severidad, pregunte la razón.
Por: Martin Häntzschel. Publicado en su blog personalFuentes:
- http://www.softwaretestingclass.com/what-is-difference-between-priority-and-severity/
- http://quality-intelligence.blogspot.com.ar/2010/08/bug-severity-vs-priority.html
- http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DifferentiatePriorityAndSeverity
- http://geekswithblogs.net/srkprasad/archive/2004/08/20/9961.aspxhttp://www.stickyminds.com/sitewide.asp?ObjectId=6323&Function=DETAILBROWSE&ObjectType=COL