PBP-DefectCriteria

DefectCriteria.md

Severity Type	Description
Blocker	Blocks development, testing or content entry such that project milestones are jeopardized Causes the entire solution to fail in the production environment Leaves The Company in breach of legal or commercial agreements with their customers, consumers, or partners Exposes the solution to security breaches that could compromise system integrity or customer and consumer information
Critical	Threatens the stability of the solution; for example through intermittent crashes, data loss, severe memory leakage or site wide performance degradation Violates core brand guidelines in a way that risks the reputation and standing of The Company Prevents the application from serving its home page/starting screen Prevents users from completing the application’s single most important user journey Directly exposes The Company to measurable financial loss (for example: the failure of an ecommerce function)
Major	Causes a major loss of function/failure related to one of the main user journeys Causes the solution to differ strongly from the approved designs and user experience Does not follow brand guidelines
Minor	Causes a loss of function, unrelated to the execution of main user journeys Deviates from approved design or user experience in non-essential way
Trivial	Not obvious to end user without examining approved design or user experience requirements