CWDS Glossary

CDSS offices located throughout the state that also have supervision over local offices and county jurisdictions assigned to their area. These offices regulates community care facilities within their region.

Provide training for the current CWS/CMS application as well as core social work practice for the county users. Each RTA covers a geographical area within California, and serve many counties. Each RTA has at least one trainer that provides training either onsite at the county or at the RTA training facility.

A person, male or female, who has been convicted of a crime involving a sexual act where the federal, state or local laws require them to be placed on the Sexual Offender Registry after they have served their criminal sentences or when they have been released on parole.

Business Definition: The purpose of this testing is to verify that recent code changes haven't altered or destroyed the already existing functionality of the system. Regression testing is responsible for confirming the overall stability and functionality of the existing features. Technical Definition: Re-running functional and non-functional tests to ensure that previously developed and tested software still performs, as designee following a change. Changes that require regression testing include bug fixes, software enhancements, configuration changes, as well as substitution of electronic components. As regression test suites tend to grow with each found defect, test automation is frequently involved.

Distribution of a version of an application. Release is done when iteration (sprints), stress testing, performance tuning, security validation and disaster recovery are successfully performed.

The first Release of the CWS-CARES in accordance with the Master Project Schedule.

The information technology infrastructure library (ITIL) service management process that encompasses the planning, design, build, configuration and testing of hardware and software releases to create a defined set of release components.

Works with staff that conduct the planning and build activities of a Release to determine what level of risk and complexity the Release represents, communicates the release Acceptance Criteria and Deliverables* for each stage of the Release, and validates the Deliverables* and requirements are applied to each Release based on an accepted process.

The nth release of CWS-CARES, in accordance with the Master Project Schedule.

Transmitting or providing access to confidential or non-confidential information to a foster child, the child’s parents or guardians or other parties in a manner that protects the privacy rights of the child and the confidentiality requirements of the jurisdiction in the interest for providing a specific benefit to the child or child welfare (e.g., reporting).