Abstract
Mobile healthcare systems are currently considered as key research areas in the domain of software engineering. The adoption of modern technologies, for mobile healthcare systems, is a quick option for industry professionals. Software architecture is a key feature that contributes towards a software product, solution, or services. Software architecture helps in better communication, documentation of design decisions, risks identification, basis for reusability, scalability, scheduling, and reduced maintenance cost and lastly it helps to avoid software failures. Hence, in order to solve the abovementioned issues in mobile healthcare, the software architecture is integrated with personal software process. Personal software process has been applied successfully but it is unable to address the issues related to architectural design and evaluation capabilities. Hence, a new technique architecture augmented personal process is presented in order to enhance the quality of the mobile healthcare systems through the use of architectural design with integration of personal software process. The proposed process was validated by case studies. It was found that the proposed process helped in reducing the overall costs and effort. Moreover, an improved architectural design helped in development of high quality mobile healthcare system.
Highlights
Mobile health technology aids in practice of medicine and is aided by mobile devices
SEI quality attribute workshop (QAW) [22] and attribute driven design (ADD) [23] methods have been adapted to form our architecture centric methodology (AAPP) since they are in direct alignment with our research goal for creating an architecture augmented personal process
Total architectural effort calculated in man-hours for personal software process (PSP) was found to be 13 hours; on the other hand, AAPP took 29 hours (2.23 times greater when compared with PSP) while the project size was approximately 2400 LOC
Summary
Mobile health technology aids in practice of medicine and is aided by mobile devices. The purpose of this research is to find the impact of architecture with respect to the risk, time, cost, and product quality and explore the PSP based software process improvement (SPI) in light of local industry constraints when developing specialized healthcare related software applications. This paper investigates an augmented process for personal maturity of developers by implementing a mobile application in the domain of healthcare related to the hospital management and patient interaction system for a local hospital in Pakistan, so better quality systems with better risk management and with low cost and tighter schedule, while promoting simplicity feedback efficiency and adaptability, can be produced by incorporating and adapting software architectural practices. The results are analysed with experience of current system developers who had created the earlier application for the said system with the help of different tools
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