Functional Show Stopper comes as one parameter of 'Priority'. I know Show Stopper.. but what is Functional Show Stopper ? What kind of issues can be categorized under this ?
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This sounds like, to me, simply a "shop term", something someone came up with in a particular location or locale. A quick Google search didn't really find much of anything to categorize this term or define it in a global way. So, a "show stopper", as I understand it, is a bug that makes the software product and/or feature being released critically unstable to the point that releasing it would cause the application and/or feature to be just a load of useless bits sitting on the hard drive. So, a "functional show stopper", while it might not totally trash the application, would mean that the bug gets in the way of the intended functionality in such a way that a particular function or feature does not meet requirements and is even un-usable in it's current state. It might not completely destabilize the application but it essentially will mean that the designated feature of the application might as well not be there. |
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I'd agree with Tristaan that "functional show stopper" sounds like a term that your organization uses for internal tracking purposes. I'd suggest you start by asking people you're working with for a clarification of how you're expected to use the term. It could mean anything from "this function is unusable" to "this is a show-stopper bug that is triggered by a function" (compared to a "performance show-stopper" like "it takes half an hour to load the application and data entry is accepted at a rate of one character every two seconds") (Don't laugh - I've had to work with applications like that...) |
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