PETRONAS Pit Stop Mobile Application

PETRONAS Pit Stop Mobile Application is an Android-based application to be used on smartphones. The problem discovered behind development of this mobile application to be caused by consumers’ difficulties in determining the right lubricant to match with their vehicles and lack of knowledge in lubricant area. In conjunction with the problem discovered, the objective of this project is to identify the criteria for selecting the right lubricant for a specific type of vehicles. The other objectives are to develop Android-based application called PETRONAS Pit Stop will incorporate all elements that have been identified and to evaluate the application in terms of user acceptance. It is designed to create awareness on importance of selecting the right lubricant oil for vehicles in order to increase engine and vehicle performance. For this purpose, PETRONAS Pit Stop Mobile Application will act as knowledge-based application to provide users with lubricant oil recommendation that match with user specific type of vehicles in Malaysia and also helps to save favorite vehicles and set reminder for the vehicle components. Android operating system (OS) is chosen as the platform for this application because Android is proven to be efficient, easy access and also the uses of this application are diverse for all types of android smartphones. In terms of methodology, Rapid Application Development (RAD) methodology will be applied because of short time frame to complete this project which is 28 weeks. Phone Gap software is used in developing the application prototype and will be tested by using Samsung Galaxy S5 smart phone. Functionality testing has been conducted to 5 respondents in order to test the functionalities of this mobile application based on the requirement collected during Analysis and Design phase in Rapid Application Development (RAD) model. User Acceptance Testing (UAT) also has been conducted to 15 respondents who owned vehicles, motorcycles and heavy duty vehicles have been randomly selected to performance User Acceptance Testing (UAT), mainly staffs and students from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) in order to ensure that this application does actually meet the essential user requirements.