Anurag Software Testing Question 2 – If there are many bugs to be fixed, which should you resolve first? Fix the highest-priority bugs first. The severity of a software defect may not correlate directly with the priority placed on fixing it. Severity and priority should be tracked separately, although in a small organization or on a small project, there may not be a large number of defects and you will not need to track both. It may also be helpful to track the “urgency” of a bug fix (as determined by the client). In larger projects, you may have a Triage team. Triage is a medical term; it is the assessment of which patients need to be dealt with first. Some patients will die regardless of what you do; some patients will heal by themselves. The third group, the patients that will only heal with your help, are the highest-priority patients. You can assign software defects to a similar type of “triage” list, based on the defects’ priority and severity. Question 3 – Wh...
