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A Framework for Evaluating the Software Product Quality of Pregnancy Monitoring Mobile Personal Health Records

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Stakeholders’ needs and expectations are identified by means of software quality requirements, which have an impact on software product quality. In this paper, we present a set of requirements for mobile personal health records (mPHRs) for pregnancy monitoring, which have been extracted from literature and existing mobile apps on the market. We also use the ISO/IEC 25030 standard to suggest the requirements that should be considered during the quality evaluation of these mPHRs. We then go on to design a checklist in which we contrast the mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring requirements with software product quality characteristics and sub-characteristics in order to calculate the impact of these requirements on software product quality, using the ISO/IEC 25010 software product quality standard. The results obtained show that the requirements related to the user’s actions and the app’s features have the most impact on the external sub-characteristics of the software product quality model. The only sub-characteristic affected by all the requirements is Appropriateness of Functional suitability. The characteristic Operability is affected by 95 % of the requirements while the lowest degrees of impact were identified for Compatibility (15 %) and Transferability (6 %). Lastly, the degrees of the impact of the mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring requirements are discussed in order to provide appropriate recommendations for the developers and stakeholders of mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring.

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Acknowledgments

This research is part of the mPHR project in Morocco financed by the Ministry of Higher education and Scientific research in Morocco 2015-2018, and part of the GEODAS-REQ project (TIN2012-37493-C03-02) supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and European FEDER funds.

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  2. Department Informatica y Sistemas University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

    José Luis Fernández-Alemán

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Idri, A., Bachiri, M. & Fernández-Alemán, J.L. A Framework for Evaluating the Software Product Quality of Pregnancy Monitoring Mobile Personal Health Records. J Med Syst 40, 50 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-015-0415-z

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