title: How to prioritize bugs?
body: <p>In my current company there isn't clear understanding between the test and development teams as to how severe a bug should be? There are arguments which go back and forth to reduce or to increase the severity. We are not as of now aware of any documents which lays the rules. The tester raises the bug and assigns priority based on his intuition. The developer would request a change based on his load or some other factor.</p>
  
  <p>How are severity/priority of bugs classified? Are there any standards which guide how software defect priorities needs to be determined based on customer needs, time lines and other things?</p>