Impact of low severity bugs

It is a common practice of a developer to ignore bugs that have low severity. Such practice if followed only adds to problems by piling up the work to be done. Often in the end, defect triage is performed in which developers are directed to fix certain defects.

Question is that why low severity bugs manage to get high priority.

Well, to understand the answer, we have to consider different factors.

Negative perception of software: It is something that we all like to avoid all costs. A bunch of minor bugs builds up the negative perception of the software even if it is not affecting the core functionality.

Target Industry: Another factor that I would like to add is of product target industry. If the software for air crafts, medical or any such critical industry then even low severity bugs will have high priority.