Severity VS Priority

Question: If there are many defects, should we fix high priority defect or severity defect?

In my opinion, we should fix the higher severity defects. Because this kind of defects would affect system running and testing schedule, the other reason is that we identify the priority according to severity. The defect is more serious, its’ priority level is higher.

Pathik’s answer: It maybe higher severity or higher priority, that depends on person. If he is the customer, he should like to fix the higher priority defect. Because he think the higher priority feature is important. If he is the developer, he need to fix the higher severity defect, because it will affect the system’s running and testing. That is to say, fixing which kind of defect first, it depends on situation.

Usually, customer identifies the priority like that: the feature is more important, the priority is higher. However, in development team, we used to identify the priority like this: the severity is higher, the priority is higher, and we would fix defect according to the priority.