CWDS Glossary
The CWDS Glossary includes a List of Acronyms and defined terms captured from various models, reports, and other artifacts pertaining to the Child Welfare System – California Automated Response and Engagement System (CWS-CARES) Project. The Glossary standardizes terms used across the various project disciplines; each term is defined with its meaning specific to the project domain.
The State may update the CWDS Glossary at any time. Any questions please contact CWDS Communications.
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Performance Test
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.
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.
Permanency Planning
The systematic process of carrying out (within a brief, time- limited period) a set of goal-directed activities designed to help children live in permanent families. This process has the goal of providing the child continuity of relationships with nurturing parents or caretakers and the opportunity to establish lifetime family relationships.
Permanent Placement Services
One of four service components of the CWS program as defined in the CDSS Manual of Policies and Procedures section 31-090, and W&IC 16501(i), and provides for the long-term placement of a child in out-of-home care. Refer also to Welfare and Institutions Code Sections 16500 et seq.
Permanent Residence Under Color of Law (PRUCOL)
PRUCOL refers to persons permanently residing under color of law. PRUCOL is not recognized as an immigration status by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Although they have not been granted legal status, these persons residing in the U.S. are known to the immigration authorities and their extended presence in the U.S. is tolerated by the authorities.
Perpetrator
The person who has been determined to have caused or knowingly allowed the maltreatment of a child.
Persistent / Persistence
In computer science, refers to the characteristic of state that outlives the process that created it (e.g., database transaction).
Persona
Personas are not real people, but they are based on the behaviors and motivations of real people we have observed and represent them throughout the design process. They are composite Archetypes based on behavioral data gathered from the many actual users encountered in ethnographic interviews.
Pilot
A hardware and software migration method that involves rolling out the CWS-CARES to a small group of Users for testing and evaluation.
Pilot Counties
A small group of California counties that will be the first to be implement the CWS-CARES.
Pivotal Tracker
An Agile project management and collaboration software that allows teams to collaborate and react to real-world changes instantly. Pivotal Tracker maintains a prioritized backlog of project Deliverables, broken down into small, estimated pieces, called stories. It dynamically groups these stories into fixed segments of time, called iterations, and it predicts progress based on real historical performance (velocity).