Auto-Owners
People of USYS
Testing
Potpourri
Zero's and One's
100
This year saw the continuation of World War I and also the founding of Auto-Owners Insurance.
What is 1916?
100
This developer has/had the longest tenor in USYS.
Who is Susanne Mannino?
100
Creating one of these is the first step to ensuring new code is correct.
What is a Test plan?
100
This programming language is rumored to outlive us all and still run critical systems.
What is COBOL?
100
This numbering system uses only 0s and 1s and is the foundation of all computing.
What is binary?
200
Although currently headquartered in Lansing, Auto-Owners first headquarters was located in this town.
What is Mount Pleasant, Michigan?
200
This team member was recently 
on by a 
.
Who is John Palmer?
200
Some examples of this are Duplicate, Incomplete, and Will Not Fix.
What are JIRA statuses?
200
This is the most common fix in IT, requiring no code changes at all.
What is turning it off and back on again?
200
In COBOL, this division contains variable declarations like PIC X and PIC 9.
What is the Data Division?
300
An auxiliary building on the campus of AO's headquarters is named for this duo of CEOs, who were also uncle and nephew.
Who are Vern and Ralph Moulton?
300
This person is the defacto contact for SharePoint Reports.
Who is Cody Rockhold?
300
After a problem occurs, an RCA meeting, or this, is held so it will not happen again.
What is a root-cause analysis meeting?
300
The only Great Lake entirely within the United States.
What is Lake Michigan?
300
This JCL statement identifies the start of a job and names it.
What is the JOB statement?
400
AO is going straight to the moon! This year saw the beginning of AO's insurance offerings in Wisconsin.
What is 1969?
400
This team member would have the longest commute to home office.
Who is Mallory Pruett-Shank?
400
This is the Slack channel for the USYS team to post crucibles and internal sign-offs to be looked at.
What is #usys-crucible-sot?
400
This U.S. government department helped sponsor the development of COBOL.
What is the Department of Defense?
400
In CICS, this command is used to send data to a terminal screen.
What is SEND (or EXEC CICS SEND)?
500
The current home office in Delta Township was completed in 1976 on a site of this many acres.
What is 120 acres?
500
There are currently this many associates on the USYS and GIS teams.
What is 10?
500
This process involves verifying an individual module of code.
What is unit testing?
500
In Beauty and the Beast, Gaston shares his muscle-building diet: as a lad, he ate this many eggs per day.
What is Four dozen eggs?
500
In COBOL, this clause is used to define implied decimal places in numeric fields, often written as V.
What is the assumed decimal point (or implied decimal)?