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Software entrepreneurial process. Principles of software business ownership. Identifying software market opportunities. Entrepreneurial software marketing. Software business communication and negotiation techniques. Feasibility analysis. Entrepreneurial financing. Legal issues. Software business plan development. Risk management.

The importance of Software Testing. Understanding Verification and Validation. How to assure it and verify it, and the need for a culture of quality. Avoidance of errors and other quality problems. Inspections and reviews. Testing, verification and validation techniques. Process assurance vs. Product assurance. Quality process standards. Product and process assurance. Problem analysis and reporting. Statistical approaches to quality control Lab WorK: Debugging tools; unit testing – black box and white testing techniques; integration and system testing tools; other testing tools – performance testing, load testing, stress testing, regression testing, security testing; manual testing vs automated testing.

Students are attached to private and public organisations for a period of three months during the second year session long break with a view to making them acquire practical experience and to the extent possible, develop skills in all areas of Software Engineering. Students are supervised during the training period and shall be expected to keep records designed for the purpose of monitoring their performance. They are also expected to submit a report on the experience gained and defend their reports. 300 Level

Students are attached to private and public organisations for a period of three months during the third year session long break with a view to making them acquire additional practical experience in all areas of Software Engineering over and above what is gained in SEN 299. Students are supervised during the training period and shall be expected to keep records designed for the purpose of monitoring their performance. They are also expected to submit a report on the experience gained and defend their reports.

Structured approach to analysis and design of information systems for businesses. Software development life cycle. Structured top-down and bottom-up design. Dataflow diagramming. Entity relationship modelling. Computer aided software engineering. Input and output, prototyping design and validation. File and database design. Design of user interfaces. Comparison of structured and object-oriented design Lab Work: system requirements gathering techniques;data modelling techniques (entity relationship modelling);process modelling techniques (data flow diagram); use of UML diagrams; system architectural design; user interface design.

Opportunity Identification (Sources of business opportunities in Nigeria, Environmental scanning, Demand and supply gap/unmet needs/market gaps/market research, Unutilised resources, Social and climate conditions, and technology adoption gap). New business development (business planning, market research). Entrepreneurial finance (venture capital, equity finance, microfinance, personal savings, small business investment organisations, and business plan competition). Entrepreneurial marketing and e-commerce (Principles of marketing, customer acquisition & retention, B2B, C2C and B2C models of e-commerce, first mover advantage, e-commerce business models and successful e-commerce companies,). Small business management/family business: Leadership & Management, basic bookkeeping, nature of family business and family business growth model. Negotiation and business communication (Strategy and tactics of negotiation/bargaining, traditional and modern business communication methods). Opportunity discovery demonstrations (business idea generation presentations, business idea contest, brainstorming sessions, idea pitching). Technological solutions (the concept of market/customer solution, customer solution, and emerging technologies, business applications of new technologies- Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual/Mixed Reality (VR), Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain, Cloud Computing, renewable energy, etc. digital business and e-commerce strategies).