DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A WEB-BASED EMPLOYEE ATTENDANCE SYSTEM WITH FUNCTIONAL EVALUATION

Abstract

Manual attendance administration can fragment records and complicate the consolidation of employee arrival and departure information. This study presents the design and implementation of a web-based employee attendance system for centralised recording and administrative reporting. An applied system-development approach followed the Waterfall stages of requirements analysis, design, implementation, and functional testing. The application provides employee login, check-in, check-out, attendance history, and administrative interfaces for master data, reports, and leave requests. Evaluation used a black-box test table containing eight documented scenarios covering authentication, attendance recording, employee-data maintenance, report display, and logout. Seven scenarios have internally consistent input–output descriptions and are reported as successful. The remaining login scenario duplicates the valid-credential input while expecting an error message, leaving its interpretation unresolved. The results support a limited conclusion about the reported operation of the documented functions; they do not establish comprehensive system reliability or improvements in employee discipline, productivity, or administrative efficiency. The contribution is an application-level account linking the attendance workflow, role-specific interfaces, and functional-test evidence. Further evaluation should resolve the ambiguous test case, document the execution environment, and measure operational and organisational outcomes using traceable study data.