The Emerging ISO International Standard for Certification of Software Engineering Professionals

The emerging standard ISO/IEC 24773, Software Engineering – Certification of Software Engineering Professionals – Comparison Framework, is at its final stage of development. The coming International Standard will establish a framework for comparison of schemes for certifying software engineering professionals. It is expected that ISO/IEC 24773 will facilitate the portability of software engineering professional certifications between different countries or organizations. At present, different countries and organizations have adopted different approaches that are implemented by means of regulations and bylaws. The intention of this International Standard is to be open to these individual approaches by providing a framework for expressing them in a common scheme that can lead to understanding.