Automated Timekeeping and Payroll Sytems using RFID

East Central Pang. Lbr. & Hardware Corporation

Chapter 3.

Research Methodology
This chapter presents the methods used in the study, the materials and methods, software and hardware
specifications, development search, research design, descriptive research, research settings, respondent of
the study and statistical treatment of data.

System Design
System Software Design is the process by which an agent creates a specification of a software artefact,
intended to accomplish goals, using a set of primitive components and subject to constraints. Software
design may refer to either all the activities involved in conceptualizing, framing, implementing,
commissioning, and ultimately modifying complex systems” or “the activity following requirements
specification and before programming, as a stylized software engineering process.

System Development
The systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a process of creating or alternating information systems,
and models and methodologies that people use to develop these systems. In software engineering, the
SDLC concept underpins many kinds of software development methodologies. These methodologies
form the framework for planning and controlling the creation of an information system: the software
development process.
SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT

PROJECT
PLANNING PHASE

ANALYSING
PHASE

DESIGN
PHASE

IMPLEMENTING
PHASE

PROJECT PLANNING
PHASE
Operingation And Testing Procedure

The proponents develop a Automated Timekeeping and Payroll Sytems for East Central Pang. Lbr. &
Hardware Corporation. – Ambrosio Street, Poblacion, Urdaneta City, Pangasinan to have a automated
system that will reduce human error that can cause the discrepancy for recording the data of the
attendance of the employee and it also will take effect on later the payroll calculation.

Black-Box Testing

Black-box testing is a method of software testing that examines the functionality if an application without
peering into its internal structures or working. This method test can be applied to virtually every level of
software testing: unit, integration, system and acceptance. It typically compromise most if not all higher
level testing, but can also dominate unit testing as well.

Unit Testing

Unit Testing is a method by which individual units of source of code, sets of one or more computer
program modules together with associated control data, usage procedures, and operating procedures, are
tested to determine if they are fit to use.

Stability Testing

Stability Testing is an attempt to determine if an application will crash. Component is pushed to the point
of crashing to learn where is limitations are. Stability testing can also be used to determine how long a
component can operate under high stress, and at what point errors other than a total crash start to occur.

Usability Testing

Usability testing is a technique used in user-centred interaction design to evaluate a product by testing it
on users. This can be seen as an irreplaceable usability practice, since it gives direct input on how real
users use the system.
Software Requirements
Instrument and Technique Used

Interview – is a conversation between two or more people where questions are asked by the interviewer to
elicit facts r statements from the interviewee.
The proponents used interview to gather data that will be used in developing the proposed system.

Observation – is an activity of a living being, such as a human, which is necessary in order to receive
knowledge of the world or about the environment through the senses, which often later involves the
recording of data via the use of scientific instruments. The proponents used observation to identify the
problem and give the objective for the proposed system
.
Questionnaire / Survey – is a research instrument consisting of a series of questions for the purpose of
gathering information from respondents. It have advantages over some other types of surveys in that they
are cheap, it often have standardized answers that make it simple to compile data. The proponent used
surveys to know the view of the students and can be used by the proponent to identify the main problem
of the school.

Evaluation Procedure

Usability - is type of evaluation procedure that aims at gaining an understanding of how the user interacts
with the proposed system.
The proponents used the procedure that aims on the proposed system feasible and user - friendly.

Efficiency – is a type of evaluation procedure that aims on the proposed system’s ability to do simple
process while doing more with less. The goal is to accomplish the same tasks and functions with less time
and work.
The proponents used the procedure to lessen the time of printing lectures and to have an automated grade
for every student.

Reliability – is a type of evaluation procedure that aims to set a step that will ensure that the proposed
system can complete the correct task without any error.
The proponents used the procedure to perform and maintain its functions in routine circumstances.

Portability – is a type of evaluation that ensures that the system is designed to be easily carried and
moved.
The proponents used the procedure to have an accessible education even at school, computer shops or at
home with internet connection availability.

Liker’s Scale

The liker’s scale technique presents a set of attitude statements. Subjects are asked to express
agreement or disagreement of a five-point scale. Each degree agreement is given a numerical value from
one to five. Thus, the total numerical value can be calculated for all the responses.

Statistical Treatment of Data

Statistical treatment of data is essential in order to make use of the data in the right form. Raw
data collection is only one aspect of any experiment; the organization of data is equally important so that
appropriate conclusions can be drawn. This is what statistical treatment of data is all about.
Weighted Mean – is similar to an arithmetic mean (the most common type of average), where instead of
each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than
others. The notion of weighted mean plays a role in descriptive statistics and also occurs in a more
general form in several other areas of mathematics.

T-test

A statistical examination of two population means. A two-sample t-test examines whether two
samples are different and is commonly used when the variances of two normal distributions are unknown
and when an experiment uses a small sample size.
Formula: