Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, Vol. 7, No. 2, Part III, May 2019 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 P-ISSN 2350-7756 | E-ISSN 2350-8442 | www.apjmr.com An Observance of a System Prototyping Methodology on the Daily Time Record System (DTR) Using Biometric Fingerprint Authentication Renz M. Buctuan College of Engineering and Information Technology, Surigao State College of Technology, Surigao City, Philippines renzbuctuan@ssct.edu.ph Date Received: October 2, 2018; Date Revised: May 8, 2019 Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research Vol. 7 No.2, 1-9 May 2019 P-ISSN 2350-7756 E-ISSN 2350-8442 www.apjmr.com CHED Recognized Journal ASEAN Citation Index Abstract - The Daily Time Record (DTR) is a requirement as a basis primarily for the salary of employees. This DTR is a measure of the behavior of one’s employee towards work. It is used to determine the undertaking of employees during their working hours. It gathers the logs in and logs out time information. The study generally aimed to design, develop, implement and evaluate the Daily Time Record (DTR) System using Biometric Fingerprint Authentication. Specifically, the study aimed to design with usable functional requirements considering DTR, Employee, Department and Import modules. Likewise, determine the system’s acceptability level using ISO 9126 criteria on its usability and efficiency. The study observed prototyping methodology in systems analysis, design, development, and implementation. The quantitative research was employed particularly purposive sampling during the system’s evaluation of its functional requirements, and the system’s behavioral aspect particularly usability and efficiency characteristics. The results revealed that the system, generally in accordance to the pre-defined functionalities, particularly, compliance with the Civil Service DTR report, with highly acceptable system’s behavioral characteristics on its usability and efficiency. It means the system functions adherence to institutional standards, highly usable particularly in the keeping, monitoring of the employees’ attendance and the whole system process provides efficiency. The realization of the study is an indicator of evolving to the culture of innovation for ethical knowledge-based society. It is recommended to consider relevant features like the automatic generation of payroll, summary lists of the employees’ requisition of the leave credits, and the computation of absences to sustain evolving the culture of innovation towards ethical knowledge-based society. Keywords: Biometric Fingerprint Authentication, Daily Time Record System, Prototyping Methodology, Usability and Efficiency INTRODUCTION In any public and private establishments, the Daily Time Record (DTR) is a requirement as a basis primarily for the salary of employees. This DTR is a measure of the behavior of one’s employee towards work. It is used to determine the undertaking of employees during their working hours. It gathers the logs in and logs out time information. It is a usable and efficient tool to monitor the employee’s attendance for more productivity with the HR officer and staff. The old attendance system was prone to error and allows impersonation to an individual employee and provides difficulty to monitor the employee’s attendance. In the study of Rao and Satoa [1], emphasized that attendance is a very important factor for various purposes and it is one of the important criteria to be followed by employees. According to the study of Nawaz, Pervaiz, Korrani and Azhar-Ud-Din [2], managing people is a difficult task for most of the organizations, and maintaining the attendance record is an important factor in the management of people. Likewise, the study of Savitra et al. [3], resonated that attendance system is a system that is used to track the attendance of a particular person and is applied in the industries, universities, schools and also in working places. The Human Resource Management Office (HRMO), of any establishment has multifarious defined functions. One of which is the record keeping of the employees DTR for preparation of inputs for the