IEEE Software Development Certification

Trojan

IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY LAUNCHES SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATION
Following three years of research among professionals, employers and their customers, the IEEE Computer Society has launched a program to certify software development professionals. Certification is based on education and mastery of a Body of Knowledge in software development. This is the only software development professional certification endorsed and administered by the IEEE Computer Society. The deadline to register for the Spring testing period is 15 April. For more information on this new program, visit http://computer.org/certification/

Requirements:

At the time of application the candidate holds a baccalaureate or equivalent university degree and has a minimum of 9,000 hours of software engineering experience within at least six (6) of the eleven (11) knowledge areas.

I. Professionalism and Engineering Economics
II. Software Requirements
III. Software Design
IV. Software Construction
V. Software Testing
VI. Software Maintenance
VII. Software Engineering Management
VIII. Software Configuration Management
IX. Software Engineering Process
X. Software Engineering Tools and Methods
XI. Software Quality

The number of hours on the Report of Experience and Education Form must total at least 9,000 hours and software engineering assignment dates must indicate that the candidate has at least two (2) years of software engineering experience within the four-year (4) period prior to the application.

Al.

Hobbes

Do they have mock exams up? I'd be intrested to see how the exam is laid out but TBH I wouldn't be bothered taking it unless it was a work requirement and even then I'd be looking for way more money once I was qualified with it.

Without seeing the tests, it looks at a glance to be very broad. A lot of those subjects could quite easily have exams dedicated to them (eg. Configuration management).

Trojan

Originally posted by Hobbes
Do they have mock exams up?

No, but they've made sample questions available. Also see the exam preparation page for more info.

Originally posted by Hobbes

I'd be intrested to see how the exam is laid out but TBH I wouldn't be bothered taking it unless it was a work requirement and even then I'd be looking for way more money once I was qualified with it.

Absolutely. But you'd be the closest thing to a Chartered Software Engineer that it's possible to get - clients looking for PMs for big projects would love that kind of thing.

Originally posted by Hobbes

Without seeing the tests, it looks at a glance to be very broad. A lot of those subjects could quite easily have exams dedicated to them (eg. Configuration management).

Obviously it's huge - it's similar to taking other professional certification exams like electricians, civil engineers, etc take - it has to be, so as to be taken seriously by anybody.

Al.