Web application for the Mentoring academy program

• Autor(a) principal: Andrade, Cassiano de Brito
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/22800
• topic: Web application; Asp.net core; Angular; Mentoring; Tutoring; Domínio/Área Científica::Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática

Mentoring Academy is a program which aims to integrate students of Instituto Politécnico de Bragança in the academy through peer mentoring and peer tutoring. This program needed an application that permits its execution. Motivated by this demand, we aimed at proposing a web application that complies with the Mentoring Academy requirements. The system requirements were defined together with the program stakeholders. Based on the literature review, we opted for the technologies ASP.NET Core and MySQL, for the backend, and Angular 6, for the frontend. Subsequently, the system architecture was planned. SCRUM methodology was used in the application development, with biweekly meetings with the stakeholders to evaluate what was done and to define the efforts for the following fortnight. Eighteen features were developed and presented, including assigning mentors and tutors to new students, scheduling meetings, generating graphics with information about the students, notifications made by the system and importing new users. Finally, the system was deployed on a Linux server provided by the Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Bragança, allowing it to be tested and later used by the Mentoring Academy users. Approximately 61% of the functional requirements defined in the system modeling were developed (44 out of 72) and some functionalities not previously defined were also implemented. The units tests developed for the web application proved promising in terms of components generation and HTTP request services, both exception-free. That said, the system provides students’ integration, permitting them to have socio-academic inclusion and support in curricular units.