{"id":1706,"date":"2016-01-18T16:36:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T16:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2021-05-25T11:23:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T10:23:33","slug":"pda-software-development-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/pda-software-development-units\/","title":{"rendered":"PDA Software Development Units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the conditions arising from the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/pda-software-development-validation-2\/\">recent validation event <\/a>for the new PDA in Software Development was to finalise the component Units. We&#8217;ve been working on them since then and they&#8217;re almost ready for publishing.<\/p>\n<p>The PDA (at each level) consists of three, double credit, Units in <em>Analysis &amp; Design<\/em>, <em>Implementation &amp; Testing<\/em>, and a <em>Project<\/em> unit. SQA units are written by practitioners, checked by vetters, and validated by SQA officers so they go through a rigorous quality assurance process.<\/p>\n<p>We hope to finalise, code and publish the Units before <strong>31 January<\/strong>. <a href=\"mailto:helen.zhang@sqa.org.uk\">Contact Helen <\/a>for more information about this award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the conditions arising from the recent validation event for the new PDA in Software Development was to finalise the component Units. We&#8217;ve been working on them since then and they&#8217;re almost ready for publishing. The PDA (at each level) consists of three, double credit, Units in Analysis &amp; Design, Implementation &amp; Testing, and a Project unit. SQA units are written by practitioners, checked by vetters, and validated by SQA officers so they go through a rigorous quality assurance&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3746,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/3746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sqa.org.uk\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}