Nástroj pro podporu rozhodování při výběru softwarových technologií pro vývoj mobilních aplikací

This thesis focuses on the evaluation of software frameworks for cross-platform mobile application development. The goal of the thesis was to create a tool that can help with decision-making about selecting a specific framework, and whose input data are publicly available for editing by experts. Based on a knowledge-based recommender system approach and previous articles dealing with criteria-based framework evaluation, a public web application was developed. The application is able to evaluate a set of cross-platform frameworks according to user-entered requirements and their relative weights, compared to actual criteria data. The validity and applicability of the tool were evaluated by employing two case studies representing mobile applications with distinct requirements and priorities. The tool is able to evaluate and rank all frameworks as expected — hybrid frameworks are generally ranked lower than cross-platform frameworks generating interpreted applications. During the evaluation of the tool, some criteria were found not to be factored in during the process. Firstly, it is the relative number of developers with the knowledge of the technologies used by a particular framework and secondly, the difference of development effort for transforming an existing web application into a cross-platform framework compared to integrating with a hybrid framework.