JSON Document management application to support a real-time mobile quiz application.

Abstract

With the growth of mobile devices and availability of mobile applications from games to utilities they have become part of everyday life. Real time mobile quiz applications have also been increasing in popularity over recent years and are now available across all smartphone and tablet devices. This project introduces quiz topic category specialisation to a real-time mobile quiz application and covered the developed of a document management application that produces and manages quiz question documents in JavaScript Object Notation in support of the quiz. This project also produced a fully functional mobile quiz application and a server-side component to support this. The aim of this project was to develop a document management application to produce JavaScript Object Notation question documents and answer the question could the document management application produce these question documents in a way that can support a real-time mobile quiz application. Development methodology combined a mix of the Spiral Model and Software Prototyping and this project used user testing and performance testing evaluations in assessing its success. From the user testing results it was found that using the document management and mobile client applications proved quite challenging due to difficulties users had navigating and using them. This fact highlighted future work to improve this. Other results from user evaluation revealed that the mobile quiz application worked well and to expected standard in terms of performance speed. Technical evaluation speed tests carried out on the server application, corroborate user evaluations, it found the server was able to query a database and produce question documents to facilitate a mobile quiz game within the expected times.