What does a class 5 or class 2 bug mean and whats the difference?
A. The higher the number, the more severe the bug. Bugs that cause the program to crash (giving that familiar “send error report to microsoft” indication) are class 6. A misspelled word would only be class 0. Falling through the land would be class 5. The scale is from 0 (harmless) to 8 (extremely severe), deriving from my long-established 0-8 difficulty scale since around 1998; it goes like this: 0 – harmless. These bugs that do not affect the program in any noticeable way. Slightly misaligned text or minor grammer errors are examples of class 0 bugs. 1 – very minor. These bugs have a very miniscule effect on the program. Text where the wordwrap doesn’t work or background scenery moving slower than expected would be class 1 bugs (the former may be class 2 or 3 if a lot of text is cut off). 2 – minor. These bugs have a small effect on the program. Hidden background scenery not becoming visible when being made visible again or menu options out of sequence would be class 2 bugs. Here and
