Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Severity vs Priority!

Severity:-Define Impact of bug or describe the bug in terms of  functionality [Low,Medium,High,Critical]
Priority:- Importance of a bug to fix it or describe the bug in terms of customer.[Low,Medium,High]

High Severity(HS) & Low Priority(LP) :-
  • A application which generates some banking related reports weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly by doing some calculation.If there is a error while calculating yearly reports it is HS but LP because this request can be change or fixed in next release. 
  • If we have typical scenario in which the application get crashed but the scenario exists rarely.

Low Severity & High Priority :-
  • If the company logo is not displaying properly on the front page.
  • There is a misspell in the URL like instead of google it displayed as gogle

High Severity & High Priority :-
  • Suppose you are doing online shopping and filled payment information but after submitting the form you get message like "order has been canceled" . 
  • A bug which is show stopper due to we are unable to proceed our testing. 
  • No error message to prevent wrong operation.

Low Severity & Low Priority :-
  • There is a mistake like you have registered success instead successfully.
  • Error message having complex meaning.  
  • Cosmetic Bugs.  

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Defect Injection Phase!!


  • IC   -  Interface capability 
  • IS   -  Interface specification
  • ID   -  Interface description 
  • II    -  Interface Implementation 
  • IU  -  Interface Use 
  • MD - Missing design 
  • MI  - Missing Implementation 
  • ME -Missing Error Handling
  • MA - Missing Assignment 
  • MC - Missing Call
  • WA - Wrong Algorithm
  • WE - Wrong Expression 
  • WC - Wrong Condition 
  • WN - Wrong Name 
  • WT - Wrong Type