Avaliação de custo de construção de software com uso de distintos BaaS

Abstract

The present work aims to compare the efforts of building a mobile application keeping its frontend constant and alternating its backend. Two versions of the same mobile application were developed, which share the same screens and functions. They differ only in the service used as the backend, that is, in the layer responsible for external communication, known as the Repository. The two services in question are Ycodify and Hasura. In order to obtain an objective comparison, metrics of software complexity and maintainability were searched in articles. The criterion for choosing the metrics was based partly on their high acceptance and recurrence in the literature, and partly on the availability of tools capable of collecting them. In the end, it was found that the frontend code development effort is similar in many ways from the use of the metrics that will be discussed here.