Testing - Defect – Severity Levels

Defect – Severity Levels

Severity:

• Severity is the complexity of the bug
• Severity is the importance of the bug
• Severity is the importance of the requirement that is missing / misbehaving  / in correctly working

Severity:

• Severity is always QA oriented 
• QA defines the Severity to a bug

Severity	Guidelines
Critical	System Crash Missing major functionality Any defect that prevents execution of test cases
High	Erroneous functionality Loss or corrupted data transformation Unexpected functional behavior Wrong/missing features in functionality Major non-Conformance to GUI standards Work around exists but is complicated
Medium	Errors in the display of graphics and content Unexpected functional behavior which are not show stoppers Minor non-Conformance to GUI standards Defect in code, but simple workaround exists
Low	Cosmetic errors / Spelling mistakes Defect causes minimal or unnoticeable problems