Software Engineering Certification Programs: What Can You Learn from Them?

3 November 2005 | Teaching, To Students | 23 Comments

The field of software engineering lacks established ways to help developing professional’s credentials. IEEE Computer Society’s Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP) Program comes to address these issue and provides a solid path to software engineering certification.

Different from other mature fields of engineering, such as civil engineering and electrical engineering, the field of software engineering lacks established ways to help developing professional’s credentials. What does it means to be a professionally qualified software engineer? How do you get there? In recent years, a number of software engineering certification programs come to address these issues. IEEE Computer Society’s Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP) Program is among them and provides a solid path to software engineering certification.

One requirement for CSDP certification is that applicants have to demonstrate mastery of a body of knowledge by passing the CSDP examination. The 3.5-hours examination consists of 180 multiple-choice questions drawn from a number of knowledge areas in software engineering.

Go to www.computer.org/certification to learn more about the CSDP program and the examination. Compare the CSDP body of knowledge with your current Software Engineering course. Find out what particular knowledge areas are not included in your textbook. Put your findings on your weblog and let us know the URL to your post. Thank for your participation to this course.

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23 Comments

  1. 1

    Well, I am the first one who reply to this question…can’t believe so….

    Andrew Yiu on 20/11/05 @ 10:42 pm

  2. 2

    Software Engineering Certification Programs

    This is my finding from the CSDP program which not included in our textbook:
    Business Practices and Engineering Economics
    1. Engineering Economics
    2. Ethics
    3. Professional Practice
    4. Standards
    Software Design
    1. Software Design Quality Analysis an…

    Snow_e Weblog on 21/11/05 @ 9:50 pm

  3. 3

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  5. 5

    Compare the IEEE Computer Society’s CSDP body of knowledge with our current course,
    the things that are not in our textbook:

    1. Engineering Economics
    2. Professional Practices
    3. Specialized Software Design Approaches
    4. Code Design, Organization, Documentation, Tuning.

    Since I’m still going with my course, so that I just find out the differents between the CSDP and MT356F that I’ve learnt.

    Dennis on 28/11/05 @ 11:56 am

  6. 6

    What Can You Learn from “Software Engineering Certification Programs” ?

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    UNTITLE on 5/1/06 @ 7:00 pm

  7. 7

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    TM on 11/1/06 @ 10:40 pm

  8. 8

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  9. 9

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    quinnie on 13/1/06 @ 6:41 pm

  10. 10

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    UNTITLE on 16/1/06 @ 11:35 pm

  11. 11

    Updated…..

    Jacky Yiu on 1/2/06 @ 6:01 pm

  12. 12

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    Brian Chong on 20/2/06 @ 10:24 am

  13. 13

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    Tomi Lam on 26/2/06 @ 12:36 am

  14. 14

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  18. 18

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  19. 19

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    kimi on 14/4/06 @ 4:52 pm

  20. 20

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    Kenneth on 18/4/06 @ 12:17 am

  21. 21

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  22. 22

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