Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP) Established2002WebsiteCertified Software Development Professional (CSDP) is a vendor-neutral in developed by the for experienced professionals. This certification was offered globally since 2001 through Dec. 2014.The certification program constituted an element of the Computer Society's major efforts in the area of, along with the IEEE-CS and ACM (SE2004) Undergraduate Curricula Recommendations, and The Guide to the (SWEBOK Guide 2004), completed two years later.As a further development of these elements, to facilitate the global portability of the software engineering certification, since 2005 through 2008 the International Standard /IEC 'Software engineering - Certification of software engineering professionals - Comparison framework'has been developed. (Please, see an overview of this and standardization effort in the article published by Stephen B. Seidman, CSDP.) The standard was formulated in such a way, that it allowed to recognize the CSDP certification scheme as basically aligned with it, soon after the standard's release date, 2008-09-01.
Several later revisions of the CSDP certification were undertaken with the aim of making the alignment more complete. In 2019, ISO/IEC has been withdrawn and revised by ISO/IEC 24773-1:2019.The certification was initially offered by the to experienced software engineering and software development practitioners globally in 2001 in the course of the certification examination beta-testing. Contents.History The IEEE Computer Society introduced the CSDP in 2002, and on October 27, 2008, it became the first certification to conform to ISO/IEC 24773 standard for software engineering certification. Determination of eligibility Candidates had to undergo a of their education and professional qualifications in order to receive authorization to take the CSDP examination.
Candidates therefore had to submit an application to the that provided verifiable information regarding their educational background and professional experience.The Certified Software Development Associate (CSDA) certification was available to graduating students and early-career software professionals who did not meet the eligibility requirements for the CSDP.CSDP examination content The CSDP examination content was based on the. The examination covered content from all primary knowledge areas in the SWEBOK Guide Version 3. Below is a list of the topics tested in terms of their proportion of the total examination. 11%. 11%. 9%.
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5%. Software engineering management 8%. 5%. Software engineering methods 4%.
7%. Software engineering professional practice 5%. Software engineering economics 5%.
5%. Mathematical foundations 3%. Engineering foundations 4%External links. Certification home: Software Professional Certification ProgramReferences.