Software Bug Severity Vs Priority. Different Levels of Priority. In the Bug Tracking the terms Priority and Severity are used to share the importance of a bug among the team and to fix it accordingly.
Severity and priority are the two things we have to choose once the bug is found. Severity defines the impact that a given defect has on the system. Priority is driven by business value while Severity is driven by.
In this post we see the difference between Severity and Priority.
That being said prioritizing a bug in the right manner goes a long way in planning your SDLC Software Development Lifecycle. The reason the tester is asking is probably that theres a development project and theres probably a bug tracking system and it probably contains fields for both severity and priority and probably as numbers. Whenever we find a bug we select the bug severity and bug priority. The tester has probably been told to fill.