CWDS Glossary

A residential facility in the licensee's family residence providing 24-hour a day care for six or fewer children who are mentally disordered, developmentally disabled or physically handicapped and who require special care and supervision as a result of such disabilities.

Business Definition: A software testing technique performed post software build to verify that the critical functionalities of software are working fine. It is executed before any detailed functional or regression tests are executed. The main purpose of smoke testing is to reject a software application with defects so that QA team does not waste time testing broken software application. Technical Definition: Also known as confidence testing, sanity testing, build verification test and build acceptance testing, smoke testing is preliminary testing to reveal simple failures severe enough to, for example, reject a prospective software release. Smoke tests are a subset of test cases that cover the most important functionality of a component or system, used to aid assessment of whether main functions of the software appear to work correctly. It is a set of tests run on each new build of a product to verify that the build is testable before the build is released into the hands of the test team.

Search for current demographic information, past child welfare history and connected relationships of clients entered in CWS/CMS.

An application within a component of the CWS/CMS that enables placement data from county probation departments and private adoption agencies to be entered via templates.

A U.S. government agency that administers social programs covering disability, retirement, and survivors' benefits. It was created in 1935 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Previously operating under the Department of Health and Human Services, the SSA has operated as a wholly independent agency since 1994.

A system that allows a county to pay a higher than basic foster care rate for children that require additional care because of special needs, such as health and/or behavior problems.

A child welfare service to help foreign children who have been abused, abandoned, or neglected to establish legal residency status to live and work in the United States.

The SPR provides a basis for understanding and agreement among project management, program management, and executive management, as well as state-level control agencies. The SPR provides a summary of the results of the original feasibility study, and the justification for any changes.

A regular, repeatable time-boxed work cycle during which work is completed and made ready for review.

The documents that will be delivered by a Sprint team during the Sprint Zero Phase.