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This certification recognizes candidates who have demonstrated a deep understanding of the software lifecycle and the capacity to lead complex technical deliveries for small teams and independent projects.

This certification recognizes candidates who have acquired the basic knowledge and understanding required for developing software products. It requires a coherent, demonstrable understanding of the principles and processes in software requirements, software design, software construction, and software testing. There are no prerequisites required for registration.

Software design is both the process of defining the architecture, components, interfaces and other characteristics of a system, and the result of that process...

This professional competency certification requires successful completion of Certificates of Proficiency in the following four key knowledge areas: Software Engineering Requirements, Software Engineering Design, Software Engineering Construction, Software Engineering Testing and the successful completion of two applied modules.

Software Engineering Economics are about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context. Success of any software engineering project is partly dependent on effective business management. Software engineering economics provides a way to examine the attributes of software and software processes in a systematic way that relates them to economic measures.

Software Quality can be defined as the capability of a software product to satisfy stated and implied needs under specified conditions. Additionally, Quality refers to the degree to which software products meet their stated requirements.

Models and Methods impose a structure on software engineering with the goal of making that activity systematic, repeatable and quality-oriented. Models provide an approach to problem solving, notations and procedures for model construction and analysis.

An engineering process can be defined as a set of inter-related activities that transform one or more inputs into outputs, while consuming resources to accommodate that transformation. In software engineering, processes refer specifically to activities by software engineers to develop, maintain and operate software. In overview, software engineering process can be examined on two levels.

Once a software product is delivered, it must evolve – or change – over time. When in actual operations, defects are discovered, operating environments change, and new user requirements emerge. While the Maintenance phase of the life cycle generally begins following a post-implementation period, actual maintenance activates may occur earlier.

Once a software product is delivered, it must evolve – or change – over time. When in actual operations, defects are discovered, operating environments change, and new user requirements emerge. While the Maintenance phase of the life cycle generally begins following a post-implementation period, actual maintenance activates may occur earlier.

Software testing consists of the dynamic verification that a program provides the expected behaviors on a finite set of test cases, suitably selected from an infinite domain of execution possibilities. Software testing is no longer limited to activities that start only after coding (construction) is complete.

Software Construction is the detailed creation of working software through a combination of coding, verification, unit testing, integration testing and debugging. Construction uses the output from the design process to build software therein described, and provides an output to testing.

Software requirements engineering is the process of determining what is to be produced in a software system. It has the widely recognized goal of determining the needs for, and the intended external behavior, of a system design.

Software development is not a straightforward process and often requires multiple iterations between the development phases. To cope with this dynamic nature of software development, software engineers need to control the changes in the development process.