CWDS Glossary

Business Definition: All activities that center around implementing standards and procedures associated with ensuring that software meets a certain set of requirements before it’s released. The intent of Quality Assurance is to ensure the best outcome of a product. QA is generally process oriented and does not include the actual testing of products. Technical Definition: The process of auditing the quality requirements and the results from quality control measurements to ensure that appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used. Quality assurance usually involves the performance of quality audits, a structured, independent process to determine if project activities comply with policies, processes, and procedures.

A set of activities for ensuring quality in products. The activities focus on identifying defects in the actual products produced.

Business Definition: A milestone in an IT project that requires that predefined criteria be met before the project can proceed to the next phase. Technical Definition: A special milestone in a software project. QGs are located between environments and tests, where the entrance criteria for the next environment is based upon the exit criteria for the activities of the previous environment and is strongly dependent on the outcome of a previous phase. They are especially useful between phases in which enhanced measurements and disciplines must be overcome. To pass through a quality gate, all demands must be met for the next phase or environment to be successful.

The Next Generation Identification (NGI) Rap Back Service was developed in response to a need for notification of criminal activity that occurs after the initial fingerprint background check on persons in positions of trust.

An environment where specific Org implementation contacts can interact with CWS-CARES functionality to validate new business processes and readiness for the CWS-CARES release.

The date the development team has completed the development and testing of functionality and it has been deployed to the Sandbox.

The maximum tolerable period in which data might be lost from an IT service due to a major incident

The targeted duration of time and a service level within which a business process must be restored after a disaster to avoid unacceptable consequences associated with a break in business continuity

The relational database feature of utilizing valid values and relationships between tables to prevent users or applications from entering inconsistent data.

When the determination that a child abuse investigation is not warranted but other needs are identified, the referral may be sent to a community agency for follow-up.