Comment by tjr
6 years ago
You also have to ask, what are you certifying?
Currently, the avionics software is certified, not the software engineer. The FAA-delegate safety reviewers get special training, but otherwise a bachelor's degree in a related discipline is the standard for an individual contributor's formal education.
There is arduous process in place to help ensure that commercial avionics software is produced to an acceptable level of quality. Problems can still get through, but the process helps weed out a lot of issues that you'd likely see in non-safety-critical software.
The original comment was saying a certificate for software engineering, and my response was in that context - what qualities of an individual engineer should be measured.
Right, I was not arguing, just sharing what is currently done in this field.