CWDS Glossary

Facilitates the ongoing support and management of information technology (IT) services infrastructure of an enterprise. The IT infrastructure of an enterprise will typically comprise many different systems and platforms, often in different geographic locations. Operations architecture ensures that these systems perform as expected by centrally unifying the control of operational procedures and automating the execution of operational tasks. It also reports the performance of the IT infrastructure. The implementation of operations architecture consists of a dedicated set of tools and processes that are designed to provide centralization and automation.

A method applied to transactional systems that allows more than one user to access the same record at one time. OCC assumes that multiple transactions can frequently complete without interfering with each other. While running, transactions use data resources without acquiring locks on those resources. Before committing, each transaction verifies that no other transaction has modified the data it has read. If the check reveals conflicting modifications, the transaction attempting to commit rolls back and must be restarted. OCC is generally used in environments with low data contention, which leads to higher overall throughput than other concurrency control methods.

An organized body of people with a particular purpose, to meet a need or pursue collective goals. An Organization (Org) may represent the State of California (CDSS), Title IV-E tribes, and the 58 Child Welfare counties including Juvenile Probation Departments using CWS-CARES, and/or CWS/CMS and/or the CARES-Live application.

A Group Home identified by the child's authorized representative as a facility that will meet a child's specific and unique needs. The group home must be certified by the State of California and comply with Title 22 Regulations. Concurrent with the certification process, the county submits an Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC). Out-of-State Group Homes undergo annual facility inspections.

An individual who has the potential for sexual attraction to people of any gender.

A specific fix that addresses a single problem or a change resulting from a legislative or policy/program change.

A collection of User Interface Design patterns.

The Performance Analyst is the resource who is responsible for specifying, collecting, and presenting key performance data and analysis. This resource will also identify obstacles to improve service performance and work with the team to overcome obstacles. This resource will communicate performance to internal and external stakeholders.

The standards relating to the operation of an individual Digital Service and/or the CWS-CARES as a whole as described in the Contract*.

Business Definition: A testing practice performed to determine how a system performs in terms of responsiveness and stability under a particular workload. It can also serve to investigate, measure, validate or verify other quality attributes of the system, such as speed, scalability, reliability and resource usage. Technical Definition: A type of software testing that ensures software applications to perform properly under their expected workload. It is a testing technique carried out to determine system performance in terms of sensitivity, reactivity and stability under a particular workload. Performance Testing is the process of analyzing the quality and capability of a product. It is a testing method performed to determine the system performance in terms of speed, reliability and stability under varying workload. Performance Testing Attributes: Speed - determines whether the software product responds rapidly. Scalability - determines amount of load the software product can handle at a time. Stability - determines whether the software product is stable in case of varying workloads. Reliability - determines whether the software product is secure or not.