Implementar un sistema web de Gestión de Eventos Académicos utilizando la metodología swirl

Abstract

The use of web technologies has had an exponential growth in the last years, more and more companies, organizations or people are choosing to create sites, applications or systems based on the web; with the objective of promoting products, allowing their users to subscribe to a service, showing educational, artistic, financial information, among others. One of the reasons why the web is so popular is, because, using the right modules you can build not only web applications, but also mobile and native to computer operating systems, i.e. multiplatform. Due to this popularity the demand in the software industry increased, being a real challenge for the developers to create usable, secure and capable systems to satisfy the customer's needs. Fortunately, the tools, methodologies and related technologies have also been developed to facilitate this task. Based on this analysis and according to the requirements, the present technological proposal implements a web system for the management of academic events using SWIRL methodology an application that will have the capacity to automate the processes of: event creation, administrator login, applicant login, participant login, grade/qualification login, certificate design generation by events, custom design, certificate emailing, system user management, role and permission assignment, home page and authentication and account recovery forms. Additionally, each certificate issued by the system is signed with a QR code that allows the document to be consulted online and its validity verified. The requirements on which the proposal is based were issued by the administrative staff of the Escuela informática at the Universidad Técnica de Machala, based on a continuous interaction, attached to it was a meeting at the end of each iteration from which emerged suggestions and changes. The technologies selected for the implementation of the system are: Apache web server, PHP, Laravel Framework, MySQL plus HTML, CSS and JavaScript language standards for user interfaces. The selection of the exposed technologies was based on the need to reach the user through any device while the internet service is available. The application does not contemplate the use of JavaScript libraries or Frameworks to build its interfaces and achieve single-page sites SPA on the contrary, the rendering of the views is done through Laravel on the server.