Improved Performance. Many issues concerning stability and performance were related to the core code of the Rodin platform, causing crashes, loss of data, corruption in models. Other issues were related to the UI causing platform hanging, and sometimes leading to its freezing which required sometimes to kill the Rodin process, thus also leading to potential loss of data and corruption in models. Addressing these issues before the end of DEPLOY was mandatory.
Improved Performance. XXXXXXXX lead a two phase investigation to have a better idea of the work to be done. Each phase being followed by some refactoring of the code. Out of the early investigation, a cause and effect relationship has been found between performance loss and the various reported bugs, such as "platform hanging" bugs. Indeed, it appeared that solving the performance issues sometimes solved induced bugs as well, making the scalability improvement tasks encompass the maintenance goals. Later, a deeper investigation was performed where profiling and code review were the two techniques used to tackle the issues left. The profiling strategy allowed to get a better localisation of the performance loss in both UI and core code while the code review helped to understand the intrinsic misuses or drawbacks of particular components and/or architectures. The proving UI was refactored in order to use a light textual representation.
Improved Performance. The refactoring made on both core code and UI code allowed to gain up to 25 times speed-up on the UI (as described below), and almost a 2 times speed-up in the core code, making the platform usable in an industrial sized context.
Improved Performance data As young people are currently using a variety of services in Scotland and elsewhere it is difficult to gather intelligence in terms of outcomes. The proposed service will enable robust data to be gathered and monitored to inform future planning. The following performance indicators have been identified and will be further developed through a performance framework. Key Performance Indicators: • Percentage of young people who have 25 hours of meaningful activities per month; • Number of consecutive days without reported incidences of aggression; • Proportion of shifts covered using bank or agency staff; • Number of incidents of aggression/restraint involving 3 or more staff; • Number of incidents of attempted and actual absconding; • Number of incidents of self-harm requiring medical intervention; • Total incidents of aggression against objects (property damage above £100 etc.). The list above is indicative only and will be developed further with Regional and National CAMHS.
