A Quality Evaluation of an Android Smartphone Application

Abstract

Smartphones are considered as the new generation of mobile devices. As the popularity of smartphones is increasing, many users tend to use various applications on them. Thus, it is imperative to devote much attention on the quality evaluation of these applications. This concern defined a research topic for Logica to work on quality issues of smartphone applications. With the aid of ISO/IEC 9126 quality model, this thesis aims to evaluate the quality of a prototype which was designed and developed on Android platform. This prototype was a time management application based on Pomodoro technique. This thesis performs the studies on reviewing relevant literatures from two viewpoints: identifying proper solutions to design and develop an Android application and determining product quality measurement of smartphone applications. Furthermore, structured interviews with smartphone application developers and quality team at Logica were used to collect more to address the above viewpoints. Once the prototype was developed, an experiment was designed and run to evaluate the usability of the proposed prototype. The results of the thesis are the implementation of the proposed prototype on Android platform and the measurement of the prototype’s usability. Results obtained from the experiment can lead us to resolve problems associated with usability and find solutions for its improvement.