Don’t Confuse a Bug’s Priority with Its Severity
There is certainly a difference beween the two, but to say that they are completely different things is going too far, as can be seen by some of the examples used to justify that claim - e.g.:<p><i>Something that is Critical severity doesn’t necessarily mean its a P0. That crashing bug in your bio screen? Face it, nobody really cares to read it and few will ever click the button, so its not something that should be a P0 ship-stopper.</i><p>In what way is that an issue of &#x27;critical severity&#x27;? The quoted text contains an explanation of why it is not.<p>The real difference is that severity is a measure of the harm done, while priority is a plan for to responding to it. Clearly they are different, but clearly they will likely be correlated, at least when the severity is high.