Defect severities, part 4 - Bugzilla

Summary
Classification used by Bugzilla developers

So far we’ve seen:

• defect severities in general
• at Debian
• at Subversion

Bugzilla uses:

• 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