When critical subsystems fail, the resulting losses can be catastrophic. In the insurance industry, if premiums are miscalculated, defect costs can reach well over a million dollars. In this session, Mike Keith and Dom Nunley draw on their practical experience with insurance systems testing to provide an overview of combinatorial automation testing for high-risk backend system areas—i.e., features that absolutely must work correctly. They share a process for categorizing requirement risk levels to determine which requirements warrant combinatorial testing. Mike and Dom illustrate various...
Mike Keith
Progressive Insurance
Mike Keith is System Test Engineer Lead, Progressive Insurance. Mike Keith has been a Test Engineer for over 15 years, focusing primarily on the automation testing for back-end systems and APIs. Over the last 5 years he’s stepped into the dark arts of combinatorial testing techniques and test oracles. More recently he’s become interested in a mathematical/statistical basis for testing with respect to profits. In his spare time, Mike’s interests include walking his two dogs and playing guitar in a classic-rock cover band.