Desarrollo de una aplicación móvil para la geolocalización de las dependencias de la Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo

Abstract

In this thesis, we developed a mobile application so that students of the Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo (ESPOCH) can locate the institutional departments through geolocation. By means of an interview with the director of the Department of Maintenance and Physical Development of ESPOCH, we obtained information about the institutional processes to create, establish signage and disseminate the departments in the institution, in addition, we conducted a documentary review to analyze the operation of geolocation in Android and iOS applications. We defined 12 functional requirements to start the project development management. Then, we implemented the agile SCRUM methodology, establishing in the planning phase 6 Technical Stories and 12 User Stories distributed in the Product Backlog with a total of 5 Sprints, with a maximum duration of two weeks each. We stablished the architecture for the operation of the application, the Pascal Case coding standard, and the MariaDB Database Manager in the design phase. For the development phase, we utilized React Native tool for the Front-End and SpringBoot for the Back-End. At the end of the development of the application, we evaluated the level of usability based on the parameters: Ease of Learning, Efficiency of Use, Retention over Time, Error Rate and Satisfaction. We applied a 14-question survey based on the Usability, Satisfaction and Ease of Use Questionnaire (USE Questionnaire) to 96 polytechnic students, obtaining as a result an overall average of 6.07 on a seven-point Likert scale, representing an 86.71% degree of usability, determining that the LODES-ESPOCH mobile application meets the usability parameters.