What is the CSDA?
The IEEE Computer Society Certified Software Development Associate (CSDA) certification is a software development certification.
The CSDA Exam Specifications were develop through a job analysis process that provided an industry accepted, systematic procedure for identifying/validating the performance domain of a job and the knowledge and skills that are necessary to perform the job.
The CSDA exam covers the following domains:
- Software Requirements (7%)
- Software Design (8%)
- Software Construction (10%)
- Software Testing (7%)
- Software Maintenance (7%)
- Software Configuration Management (3%)
- Software Engineering Management (3%)
- Software Engineering Process (4%)
- Software Engineering Methods (5%)
- Software Quality (6%)
- Software Engineering Professional Practice (7%)
- Software Engineering Economics (3%)
- Computing Foundations (10%)
- Mathematical Foundations (10%)
- Engineering Foundations (10%)