A MOBILE APPLICATION TO INTERACT WITH

MESH BILLING SYSTEM

AUTHOR: ZINE TSHAKASUPERVISOR: Professor

I.VENTER

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Mesh potato network helps people from rural areas to make calls for free

A mobile application that will be used by mesh potato users to check their credit

It is a USSD application

USER REQUIREMENTS Easy to install on a mobile phone Allow a user to capture a personal

information Authentication

IMPLEMENTATION

user

TOOLS USED Eclipse IDE for Java developers. Android Developer Tool

TESTING

8 users were identified to test designed application

Usability testingFunctionality testingUsers signed consent form

USABILITY TESTINGFocused mainly on the general

appearance and the user friendliness of the system.

Each participant was given the user guide.

Feed back from the user was then asked.

Users displayed a positive attitude to the general appearance and design of the interface.

USABILITY TESTING RESULTS

0.62

0.22

0.09

0.07

very easyeasymoderateDifficultvery difficult

FUNCTIONALITY TESTING

Each participant was given the user guide with step by step instructions to read through before they got to play with the system.

Functionality testing was conducted with 8 people from Delft.

It was done individually each person was asked to register on the system and interact with the system by playing around different options of the system.

FUNCTIONALITY TESTING RESULTS

0.89

0.11

Requirements met?

AgreeDisagree

DEMONSTRATION

registering Balance displayed

REFERENCES

R. Tamanda, 01 July 2013. [Online]. Available: http://www.androidhive.info/. [Accessed 10 September 2013].

C. Moren, "talk android," [Online]. Available: http://www.talkandroid.com/6211-php-for-android-install-it-and-start-testing/. [Accessed 19 August 2013].

Mahangu, A. (2010). Minutes Management System. University of the Western Cape, Computer Science Department. Unpublished Honours Project.

J. M. Ufitamahoro. [Online]. Available: http://www.cs.uwc.ac.za/~mufitamahoro/project.html. [Accessed 18 May 2013].

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS