Severity and Priority of a Bug are the mandatory fields of a Bug Report because these two fields helps to decide how quickly a bug should be fixed.
What is Severity?
Severity is the impact of the bug on customer's business and tells how severe the bug is and the impact of the bug.
What is Priority?
Priority defines how soon the defect should be fixed.It defines the importance of the bug.
Generally, Severity is assigned by Tester/Test Lead and priority is assigned by Developer/Project Lead.It requires whole team to decide. Development team will fix the High Priority Bugs first rather than high Severity.
Examples of Different Combinations:
High Priority & Low Severity: Logo of the company or brand ,it won't cause lot of damage but need to be fixed as soon as possible.
High Priority & High Severity: In an Ecommerce website, 'Submit' button is not working.When user enters all the information and clicks on 'Submit' button , it throws error.
Low Priority & Low Severity: Spelling mistakes , a page is taking more time to load than usual.
Low Priority & High Severity: Browser compatibility issues
These are only the examples, in real time whole team will decide these two fields as per the application and business flows.
Happy Software Testing!!!!!!
Amazingly written
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