Testing & Quality
What is Defect Severity?
A classification of a defect's business or technical impact, such as critical, high, medium, or low.
Critical typically means a process is blocked with no workaround, such as posting failures or payment errors. Severity definitions belong in the test strategy. Exit criteria usually allow no open critical or high defects.
Related terms
Defect
A deviation between actual and expected behavior that requires analysis and possibly correction.
Defect Priority
The urgency with which a defect should be fixed, set by business and project needs rather than impact alone.
Exit Criteria
Conditions that must be met to complete a test phase, such as executed tests, pass rates, and open defect thresholds.
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