Defect severities, part 4 - Bugzilla
Posted October 01, 2005 in miscSo far we’ve seen:
- defect severities in general
- at Debian
- at Subversion
- Blocker: Blocks development and/or testing work
- Critical: crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak
- Major: major loss of function
- Minor: minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present
- Trivial: cosmetic problem like misspelled words or misaligned text
- Enhancement: Request for enhancement
The ActiveState bug database uses a similar scheme:
- 1-Blocker Prevents development or testing
- 2-Critical Causes operating system instability or data loss
- 3-Major Causes the application to crash or fail to respond (hang)
- 4-Normal Functionality or usability does not meet expectations
- 5-Minor Minor impact on functionality or usability
- 6-Trivial A cosmetic problem, such as a misspelled word or misaligned graphic
- 7-Enhancement Suggestion to add a new program feature