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This strategy backfires when managers want the release out so they fight to lower the severity for every defect that is entered. Then they generate a report showing no high severity defects and release the software. Another common problem is a high number of low severity defects that make the software annoying to use.

I am not claiming that a bug count of zero is possible with most software, but testing quality in at the end is the wrong approach. Nothing affects quality as much as the skill level of the developers.