How to prioritize bugs?

Question

In my current company there isn\'t clear understanding between the test and development teams as to how severe a bug should be? There are arguments which go back and forth to re

Answer 1

I work on emergency control centre systems, so this set of bug levels is a little, well... extreme:

• someone dies
• total system failure requiring DR invocation
• server failure requiring engineer response
• failure involving loss of call continuity
• failure involving loss of data
• incorrect data recorded
• application failure - non-recoverable
• application failure - non-recoverable, but automatically restarted
• does not meet requirement spec, no workaround
• does not meet requirement spec, but has workaround
• cosmetic - layout etc.
• actually a feature request

That's off the top of my head. In case you were wondering, it's from most extreme to least :-)