Development of a Web-based Application for Post Disaster Needs Assessment and Response in National Capital Region

The Philippines based on its geographic factors is known to become highly prone to natural disasters such as floods, typhoons, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes. As a result of these worst catastrophes, it had a destructive impact on the people's health, lives, properties, livelihoods, and living environments. These natural disasters are unforeseeable and unavoidable which motivated the developers to create a web-based application that serves as a Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) tool for the National Capital Region (NCR) which is an effective post-disaster response that could help save more lives and reduce the calamity's negative effects. The goal is to provide a real-time disaster monitoring information system for Filipino citizens and to be able to assist them in making critical decisions in the aftermath of a disaster based on the information provided by the web-based application system. In this paper, the developers discussed the development of the web-based application PDNA-NCR by the utilization of the Agile Software Development cycle, a methodology that is an iterative approach to the design and development of the system. The testing of the web application has been carried out using Agile testing, a continuous process with 4 levels, from component testing to integration testing, to system testing and acceptance testing. Based on the test cases and simulated data, the tests showed a favorable result.