IEEE - Firebrand's Training for IEEE's Certified Software Development Associate (CSDA)

Curriculum

• Functional and non-functional requirements
• Requirements elicitation techniques
• Software models to be used to flush out and extract hidden requirements
• Requirements analysis
• Requirements engineering in the context of software development life cycles and processes
• Requirements validation techniques
• Evaluate requirements to identify defects
• Common techniques used to manage changes to requirements
• Essential design principles and methods relative to the overall software design process
• The concepts of concurrency, data persistence, error handling and security to a typical software design project
• Essential elements of software structure and architecture in terms of styles, patterns and families of programs and frameworks within software development projects
• Key principles involved in the development of user interface design to a software development project
• Function, object, data structure and component-based design methodologies in a typical software design project
• Managerial skills required in software construction complexity: anticipating change, constructing for verification, and employing construction standards throughout a software construction project
• Key construction life cycle models - including planning and measurement - to software construction projects
• Construction considerations such as design, languages, coding, testing, quality, and reuse
• Key construction technologies such as API, state-based and table-driven techniques, runtime configuration, middleware, and other technologies in a typical software construction project
• Key software construction tools such as GUI builders, unit testing tools, profiling, performance analysis, and slicing tools
• Testing terminology
• Software test processes and techniques
• Testing techniques, including domain, code, fault, usage, and model-based, within software testing scenarios
• Test evaluation scenarios to specific software testing objectives
• Testing process, taking into account all common practical consideration