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Modernizing Insurance Platforms: A New Approach to Development and Testing
Insurers today face intense pressure from geopolitical and climate risks, regulatory compliance, and ever-increasing competition. To stay ahead, they are embracing digital transformation, leveraging technologies like AI, machine learning, and cloud computing. These innovations offer significant benefits, including enhanced efficiency, reduced costs, and a more personalized customer experience. However, they also add layers of complexity to already intricate IT landscapes.
The insurance software ecosystem is a complex web of policy management systems, web and mobile apps, and embedded devices for telematics, serving everyone from agents and brokers to end customers. With such a massive and intricate system, using different quality assurance tools can cause fragmented, siloed, and incoherent testing processes, slowing down your ability to innovate.
Why is Testing Insurance Software So Hard?
One of the key characteristics of insurance is the complexity of its business logic – for example, rating and premium calculations, and the different kinds of personas that must be served, such as product owners, rating analysts, developers, underwriters, and actuaries. Keeping up to date with industry regulations, staying on top of compliance, and keeping the business profitable in a highly competitive environment is a stiff challenge.
Quality refers to both functional accuracy and the smoothness of the end-user experience. A lack of quality can impact the business in multiple ways:
Incorrect pricing or quotes
affect the bottom line.
Inaccurate data presented to policyholders
can damage the brand and lead to legal expenses.
Slow quote delivery
will send potential customers to competitors.
Test automation is critical for being able to release customer benefits faster and more often, giving you a competitive advantage. Tests elevate confidence in the quality of your releases and help you keep up with the fast pace of industry demands.
The Solution: A Two-Pronged Approach
To truly accelerate digital transformation, you need to address two fundamental aspects of your technology stack: the efficiency of your underlying application framework and the effectiveness of your testing strategy. This is where the powerful combination of VeriQuant and Karate Labs comes in.
A More Efficient Foundation with VeriQuant
Traditional browser-hosted applications are often inefficient, slow, and complex. They rely on constant, bulky code streams and frequent communication with distant servers, which creates a significant performance drag.
VeriQuant offers a revolutionary framework that rethinks how data is managed, served, and presented. By creating a more efficient communication layer and empowering client-side data processing, VeriQuant:
Reduces server burden and count
slashing capital outlays and operational costs.
Lessens environmental impact
through greater efficiency.
Delivers a far more powerful and responsive tool
to the desktop than would otherwise be possible.
With VeriQuant, you build your insurance applications on a foundation of speed and simplicity, eliminating the architectural bottlenecks that frustrate developers and slow down your entire delivery pipeline.
The Power of Synergy: VeriQuant and Karate Labs
When you combine VeriQuant's efficient framework with Karate's comprehensive testing capabilities, you create a virtuous cycle of speed and quality.
- ✓Faster Development Cycles: VeriQuant's streamlined architecture makes it easier to build and deploy new features.
- ✓More Stable Test Environments: A more efficient backend means more reliable and performant testing environments.
- ✓Higher Quality Releases: Karate's ability to test every layer of your application ensures that new features are robust and bug-free.
- ✓Increased ROI: Faster time-to-market and lower operational costs deliver a significant return on your technology investment.
Karate for Guidewire Testing
After years of working in a variety of domains such as income tax and insurance, we observed common challenges and evolved patterns to address them. Karate is a core technology for API testing that Guidewire embeds into the GT: Framework and is a proven solution for API testing in the P&C insurance industry. Karate Labs is the sole Guidewire technology partner for testing technologies.
This innovative solution combines the best of both worlds – the fine-grained control that one gets from Unit Testing with the out-of-process developer experience of API Testing.
The embedded adapter approach means:
- ✓The team can iterate on writing complex functional tests without having to restart the server for every small change made in the test script.
- ✓Data can be set up in any combination needed, along with currency amounts and numbers in a true data-driven fashion.
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Ready to transform your insurance technology stack?
Contact us at info@karatelabs.io to schedule a demo of Karate and learn more about VeriQuant.
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