Sleep Restore is designed for people with sleep problems, such as insomnia, stress, tension,etc. To solve these problems a person should first fill in a questionnaire. The app will provide the questionnaire results based on the person’s answers with the possible proble...
Sleep Restore is designed for people with sleep problems, such as insomnia, stress, tension,etc. To solve these problems a person should first fill in a questionnaire. The app will provide the questionnaire results based on the person’s answers with the possible problems and recommendations to solve them. The results also include a playlist for the person. A person listens to the tracks from the playlist before the bedtime. To check the progress, a person will have to refill the questionnaire next month. The app will define if there is any progress or not.If there is, the playlist and recommendations will be updated.
The playlist tracks use the bilateral stimulation – a treatment element of EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing).
The application also contains a premium feature. The playlist tracks are mostly free, but there are some additional tracks, which can be purchased by a person. Moreover, the application provides free bonus-tracks after a certain number of questionnaire filling attempts.
There is also a web application. It stores all users’ questionnaire results, and allows Admin to see some statistics. Besides, the web app serves as a content management tool, so the Admin can add tracks, create playlists, edit the questionnaire contents.
Challenges
Development challenges:
Since each person is unique and thinks his own unique way, weworked a lot on the questionnaire functionality.
It’s not about just embedding the questions to the code. Thequestionnaire should be configurable, so that our customer asa clinical psychologist/researcher could edit it, add or removesome questions to be able to detect a person’s sleep problembetter.
QA challenges:
The challenge of the QA activities on this project was thenecessity to conduct testing on the multiple devices. For anAndroid application, it meant to conduct tests on the multiplemodels with different Android versions.
Solutions
To beat this challenge, we had to pass two iterations ofdeveloping this functionality. The first iteration wascomplicated and hardly usable.
So, during the second iteration, our team drew mockups, gotthe approval of them from the customer, and then implementedthe final solution. The result questionnaire functionality wasbuilt as a step-by-step wizard with the description of each step,so that our customer would be able to understand what needsto be specified at each step.
The solution has allowed the customer to add, remove, edit thequestions, possible combinations of answers to them, attach orchange the recommended tracks of each answer combination.
So the customer can be sure that the people will get a flexibleand smart set of questions to detect and solve their sleepproblems.
QA activities:
Functional testing, usability testing, compatibility testing,security testing.
QA tools:
Pixel perfect, Crashlytic, Reflector, Genymotion, Android Studio.
Results
At the moment the apps are released on Google Play and App store.
The users already comment positively on having their sleep problems solved. The average rating of theapp on Google Play is 4.5 out of 5, on the App store it is 4.1 out of 5. The customer is also satisfied withour work on the app. You can check his review below.
Technologies: Android, Angular 5, Bootstrap 3, iOS, Java, PostgreSQL, Spring
Duration: 8 months
Team: 1 analyst, 2 developers, 1 QA engineer, 1 project manager
Areas of expertise: Custom UI widgets, media player, integration with a web API, user settings persistence
