A Software Development Methodology to Extend E-Services to M-Services (eM2ethodology)
Zuhoor Abdullah Salim Al-Khanjari, Naoufel Kraïem, Arwa Al-Shanfari, Omaima Baomar · 2014
Abstract — Nowadays smart phones play an important roll between business and users. Therefore, businesses decided to go mobile. Municipalities and organizations that provide services to the public through E-Services will benefit from utilizing mobile features along with choosing the appropriate development approach. Services will be more users friendly and will reach more citizens. Developing in house M-Services that mirror E-Services need to be handled systematically through a software development methodology. As a step forward in this direction, we propose eM2ethodology (Electronic to Mobile methodology) to extend E-Services to M-Services. The methodology is based on existing methodologies in two fields ' web development and mobile development. The reason behind choosing these fields is that the methodology should be able to transfer and extend the E-Services of an application to M-Services. The methodology concentrates on minimizing the risk of failure and delivering the project in an efficient time. We validated the methodology by transforming E-Services of Omani public authority of consumer protection website into M-Services as a mobile web application. Validation is on progress as this is ongoing research. Moreover in the future we are going to validate the methodology against other development approaches.