CastleBay Guidewire Quality Assurance Practice

Waysys LLC is working with CastleBay Consulting Corporation to offer enhanced quality assurance services tailored to the suite of Guidewire Software Inc.'s insurance software products.

The CastleBay Quality Assurance Practice for Guidewire offers:

• Reduced project risk
• More thorough testing
• Rapid implementation of quality practices
• Training for client staff so skills can be internalized in the client organization
• Automated test tools and scripts convert perishable manual effort into a reusable asset.

The CastleBay Quality Assurance Practice offers a comprehensive approach to testing Guidewire products. The approach provides QA planning, test case analysis, manual and automated testing, inspections. and QA metrics.

The mission of CastleBay Consulting Corporation is:

• to provide best in class business solutions consulting services to the property and casualty insurance industry
• to deliver extraordinary client value through leveraging deep domain and project expertise and reusable intellectual property.

CastleBay Consulting Corporation (CBC) was founded in 1998 to offer consulting services to the property and casualty insurance industry. From its offices in Austin, TX, Reading, PA, Cincinnati, OH, and Park City, UT. CastleBay successfully delivers services across the United States and Canada.

• strategic systems planning, acquisition, and legacy replacement
• program and project set up, management, and assessment
• quality management
• business process and requirements analysis
• and related software implementation services.

CBC focuses only on property and casualty carriers. CBC employs consultants with years' of experience in insurance systems. Many of the staff have more than 25 years of experience. Consultants are supported with a set of processes, templates, tools, and documentation specific to the offered services. CBC is able to provide results more quickly and reliably.

CBC has a professional services alliance with Guidewire Software to provide training, functional configuration, and quality assurance services.

Guidewire Software Inc. develops core software systems exclusively for the property and casualty insurance industry. Current system offerings include:

• ClaimCenter^(R) for claims processing
• PolicyCenter^(R) for policy administration
• BillingCenter^(R) for receivables administration

Guidewire systems are built upon a modern Web-based, metadata driven architecture that supports easier configuration and integration. Guidewire has over 40 carriers as customers.

Objectives

The objectives of the Quality Assurance Practice are:

• to help Guidewire clients achieve accurate, reliable implementations
• to provide thorough test coverage at acceptable cost and time frame
• to provide project stakeholders with reliable indications of the quality of deliverables
• to leverage client staff by complimenting skills and providing training
• to help achieve system delivery on time and on budget.

Features

The CastleBay Quality Assurance Practice for Guidewire provides these features:

• Staff experienced in insurance, development, quality assurance, and Guidewire products.
• Processes customized to Guidewire products
• Templates for plans, test cases, and other deliverables
• High level of test automation
• Frameworks for automated testing
• Use of open source and other inexpensive tools
• Use of the Framework for Integrated Testing

CastleBay provides a software quality assurance plan. Completing the plan for a particular project will guide the QA team to consider all the important aspects of the QA effort. (more)

Proper documentation and management of requirements are essential for effective QA. CastleBay offers Quality Workbench^TM. (more)

One question that often arises is how to prepare test cases. CastleBay uses FIT as a workable methodology for writing test cases. (more)

CastleBay emphasizes the importance of automated testing. CastleBay provides several automated testing tools to make automated testing of Guidewire products a practical reality. (more)