Design, Development and Assessment of Ac-19 Contact Tracing Web Portal Using Laravel Frameworks

Abstract

Several nations are developing digital contact-tracing systems to combat the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. Traditional contact tracing is too slow to reach individuals before they transmit, but the scalability and rapidity of a digital technique, employing proximity sensors on smartphones, is hypothetically fast enough to end the pandemic. The AC-19 Contact Tracing Web Portal is designed and developed to help the whole community of Aparri to make the contact tracing easier, reliable, faster, better and efficient to use with no cost. Problems and issues were obtained thru observation and document review. The
Waterfall Methodology encompasses the different activities towards the way of implementing the Application. The system can be used as an application for easy contact tracing. The system was coded with PHP programming language, Laravel 8 framework and stylized using CSS and Bootstrap framework compiled with Java Script to provide a better performance to its users. The system is powered by PHP for the server-side and MySQL for the database management and Visual Studio Code as a developer’s tools application for the development of the system. Findings revealed the developed AC19 Contact Tracing Web Portal was compliant to ISO 25010 software quality standards at high extent. With the benefits it can deliver to various stakeholders, the AC19 Contact Tracing Web Portal is highly recommended for its full adoption and utilization with the LGU Aparri in its sincere efforts to combat COVID19 infections.