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Study on random order testing

Software testing is very highly used and very expensive. The main function of the software testing is to find the defects. Not all software defects are caused by coding errors. One common source of expensive defects is requirement gaps, e.g. unrecognized requirements that result in errors of omission by the program designer. Requirement gaps can often be non-functional requirements such as testability, scalability, maintainability, usability, performance, and security. A programmer makes an error (mistake), which results in a defect (fault, bug) in the software source code. If this defect is executed, in certain situations the system will produce wrong results, causing a failure. So there are different test cycles in which a project can be tested. In this project I have taken a shopping cart website, the testing has been done to each test case multiple times to check the number of errors got in the testing. The duration of the testing is also noted. In totally random order texting all possible ways are also been tested and the successful testing output without any errors is performed. Normal testing for the same site is done simultaneously and comparing the difference and time consuming and the maximum number of errors obtained.  

Published by: M. Arjhun, John Bruce

Author: M. Arjhun

Paper ID: V4I2-1585

Paper Status: published

Published: April 3, 2018

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Research Article

The growth of mutual funds in India: A special reference to sectoral mutual funds

Mutual fund investment becomes an ideal investment during the last few years in India. It poses a medium risk and provides good returns to the investors on their savings. There are more than a thousand schemes are available in the market of mutual funds. Sectoral mutual funds are highly risky compared to the other diversified equity schemes. During the recession period, some sector performed better and provides the better return than their benchmarks. In the present study, we explain the top most popular sector funds which hold the topmost assets under management of equity as well as performed well during the recession time period. These sectoral mutual funds are banking sector fund, Software sector fund, a Pharmaceutical sector fund, etc. Banking sector holds the 13% to 22% of the equity and well-managed sector funds provide 52.43% returns while worst managed sector provide 13.75% during the recession time period in 2008-09. Second largest equity holding sector is software sector fund. This sector holds 8% to 14%. Pharmaceutical sector grasps 6% to 8% and Auto sector seize 3% to 6% of the equity.  

Published by: Dr. Ashok Kumar, Suman Rani

Author: Dr. Ashok Kumar

Paper ID: V4I2-1533

Paper Status: published

Published: March 31, 2018

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A study on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability in agribusiness in Ethiopia – challenges and developing strategies

The commercialization of agriculture is a top priority for Ethiopia. It is, therefore, encouraging to have seen a rapid development of the commercial agriculture sector in recent years. Entrepreneurs, government, and other stakeholders share the opinion that commercial agriculture can be successful only when it is done on a sustainable footing. It is widely acknowledged that although the entrepreneur has a wide responsibility in this respect, he or she cannot do it alone. Developing sustainable agriculture requires an exchange of knowledge and experience among business, government and civil societal organizations. The code of practice developed by and for the Ethiopian floriculture sector is a good example of such a process. Working on sustainability by entrepreneurs is generally referred to as corporate social responsibility (CSR). In practice, it entails constantly working on improving the three P’s (people, planet, and profit) in a balanced manner. Most entrepreneurs involved in commercial agriculture in Ethiopia are motivated to work on CSR. As a result, a wide variety of good practices have evolved in recent years. This article is an attempt to highlight CSR practices, important issues in agribusiness and Suggestions to promote work on improvement of the three P’s (people, planet, and profit) to the agribusiness community.  

Published by: Dr. Monica Tulsian

Author: Dr. Monica Tulsian

Paper ID: V4I2-1503

Paper Status: published

Published: March 31, 2018

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Heart disease prediction using classification and feature selection techniques

The value of measurement age, blood pressure, weight, smoking habits, exercise, and blood serum cholesterol in predicting death and coronary cardiopathy was studied over an amount of ten years. Sixteen teams comprising 12 763 men aged 40-59 years (at the outset) from 7 countries (Yugoslavia, Finland, Italy, Kingdom of The Netherlands, Greece, USA, and Japan) were studied. the very best risk factors were found to be age, pulse blood pressure, and blood serum cholesterol concentration (related to saturated fatty acids within the diet). Variations in incidence rates couldn't be shown to be associated with characteristics of the cohorts in relative weight, smoking habits or physical activity. To design a perceptive model for heart illnesses acknowledgment using data mining strategies that are fit for enhancing the constancy of heart infections conclusion. Thereafter, we divide this data into Training and Testing Data Sets and employ Naïve Bayes technique to obtain relatively higher prediction accuracy. The primary goal of this research would be given a highly accurate prediction of Heart Disease. As we have done a combination of Genetic and Naïve Bayes Technique, the Investigation would be developed a Hybrid model of both these techniques and called it Hybrid Genetic Naïve Bayes Model for predicting high accuracy in results.  

Published by: Navdeep Singh, Sonika Jindal

Author: Navdeep Singh

Paper ID: V4I2-1527

Paper Status: published

Published: March 31, 2018

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Design and implementation of IoT based smart irrigation system

India is the agriculture-based country. Our ancient people completely depended on the agricultural harvesting. Agriculture is a source of livelihood of majority Indians and has the great impact on the economy of the country. In dry areas or in case of inadequate rainfall, irrigation becomes difficult. So, it needs to be automated for proper yield and handled remotely for farmer safety. Increasing energy costs and decreasing water supplies point out the need for better water management. Irrigation management is a complex decision-making process to determine when and how much water to apply to a growing crop to meet specific management objectives. If the farmer is far From the agricultural land he will not be noticed of current conditions. So, efficient water management plays an important role in the irrigated agricultural cropping systems. A low-cost alternative solution for efficient water management currently in use is drip irrigation systems that consist of an automated irrigation mechanism which turns the pumping motor ON and OFF on detecting the moisture content of the earth using the soil moisture sensor without the intervention of a human. The benefit of employing these techniques is to decrease human interference and it is quite feasible and affordable. This Smart irrigation system project is using an Arduino microcontroller, that is programmed to collect the input signal according to a moisture content of the soil and its output is given to the mobile application that will operate the pump.  

Published by: Rasika Arsade, Monali Daf, Oshin Nagpure, Ritika Charpe, Alok Chauhan

Author: Rasika Arsade

Paper ID: V4I2-1367

Paper Status: published

Published: March 31, 2018

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Stabilization of rammed earth with sawdust ash

Rammed earth is a technique of forming in-situ structural wall elements using rigid formwork. Advantages of rammed earth walls include flexibility in plan form, a scope for adjusting the strength and wall thickness, variety of textural finishes, lower embodied carbon and energy, etc.. The thesis deals with an extensive experimentation on sawdust ash stabilized rammed earth specimens. Two varieties of specimens (cylindrical, cubes) are to be used in the experiments. A natural soil and its reconstituted variants were used in the experimental work. Details of the experimental programme, characteristics of raw materials used in the experimental investigations, methods of preparing different types of specimens and their testing procedures are discussed in detail. The aim is to establish properties of locally available natural soil and comparing it with properties of soil suitable for rammed earth construction and effect of Sawdust ash (SDA) on properties of natural soil used for rammed earth.  

Published by: Sri Vishnu Kailash. K, B. Karthick, C. Savinth Kumar

Author: Sri Vishnu Kailash. K

Paper ID: V4I2-1518

Paper Status: published

Published: March 31, 2018

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