Um estudo de caso de implantação de processo de qualidade no desenvolvimento de uma aplicação para dispositivos Android.

Abstract

The variety of devices and their different configurations make the development of Android applications difficult. Because of this, a well-defined and well-planned quality process is important. The lack of this process can increase the incidence of bugs and the chances of system requirements not being satisfied. This work aims to implement a software quality process in the context of Android application development. This application is intended to be used by health agents who will feed it with data that will be processed and modeled in order to issue early warnings about the incidence of disease-transmitting mosquito populations. The quality process is defined based on a literature search on good practices in Android development, a study on the problem domain and on the application's business rules. Based on this research, a strategy was discussed for the creation of a process that encompasses the development of tests, code versioning and procedures for the application deployment. At the end of the work, a questionnaire was applied to the project supervisors so that they could evaluate the effectiveness of the implemented process. The implantation of the process resulted in the identification of defects in the application, increasing the reliability from the implementation of system tests and helping the maintainability of the system with the documentation of the requirements and the standardization of the development process. Finally, it was noted that the process would be better evaluated if communication between team members was more efficient and if it were applied over a longer period of iterations.