1. s humanity, in special care owed to people affected by the work of software engineers, and the unique elements of the practice of software engineering.
2. Treat all forms of software maintenance with the same professionalism as new development.
3. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
4. To ensure, as much as possible, that their efforts will be used for good, software engineers must commit themselves to making software engineering a beneficial and respected profession.
5. Moderate the interests of the software engineer, the employer, the client and the users with the public good.
6. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
7. Software engineers are those who contribute by direct participation or by teaching, to the analysis, specification, design, development, certification, maintenance and testing of software systems.
8. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.
9. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
10. Software engineers are those who contribute by direct participation or by teaching, to the analysis, specification, design, development, certification, maintenance and testing of software systems.
1. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
2. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.
3. Work to follow professional standards, when available, that are most appropriate for the task at hand, departing from these only when ethically or technically justified.
4. Ensure realistic quantitative estimates of cost, scheduling, personnel, quality and outcomes on any project on which they work or propose to work and provide an uncertainty assessment of these estimates.
5. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent with the public interest.
6. Ensure realistic quantitative estimates of cost, scheduling, personnel, quality and outcomes on any project on which they work or propose to work, and provide an uncertainty assessment of these estimates.
7. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
8. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
9. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
10. These Principles should influence software engineers to consider broadly who is affected by their work; to examine if they and their colleagues are treating other human beings with due respect; to consider how the public, if reasonably well informed, would view their decisions; to analyze how the least empowered will be affected by their decisions; and to consider whether their acts would be judged worthy of the ideal professional working as a software engineer.
1. These Principles should influence software engineers to consider broadly who is affected by their work; to examine if they and their colleagues are treating other human beings with due respect; to consider how the public, if reasonably well informed, would view their decisions; to analyze how the least empowered will be affected by their decisions; and to consider whether their acts would be judged worthy of the ideal professional working as a software engineer.
2. However, even in this generality, the Code provides support for software engineers and managers of software engineers who need to take positive action in a specific case by documenting the ethical stance of the profession.
3. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
4. In particular, those managing or leading software engineers shall, as appropriate:Ensure good management for any project on which they work, including effective procedures for promotion of quality and reduction of risk.
5. In particular, software engineers shall continually endeavor to:Further their knowledge of developments in the analysis, specification, design, development, maintenance and testing of software and related documents, together with the management of the development process.
6. Software engineers are those who contribute by direct participation or by teaching, to the analysis, specification, design, development, certification, maintenance and testing of software systems.
7. As this Code expresses the consensus of the profession on ethical issues, it is a means to educate both the public and aspiring professionals about the ethical obligations of all software engineers.
8. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
9. The Code contains eight Principles related to the behavior of and decisions made by professional software engineers, including practitioners, educators, managers, supervisors and policy makers, as well as trainees and students of the profession.
10. Principle 7: COLLEAGUESSoftware engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.
1. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
2. Avoid associations with businesses and organizations which are in conflict with this code.
3. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
4. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
5. The Code contains eight Principles related to the behavior of and decisions made by professional software engineers, including practitioners, educators, managers, supervisors and policy makers, as well as trainees and students of the profession.
6. Report significant violations of this Code to appropriate authorities when it is clear that consultation with people involved in these significant violations is impossible, counter-productive or dangerous.
7. As this Code expresses the consensus of the profession on ethical issues, it is a means to educate both the public and aspiring professionals about the ethical obligations of all software engineers.
8. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
10. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
1. Promote no interest adverse to their employer or client, unless a higher ethical concern is being compromised; in that case, inform the employer or another appropriate authority of the ethical concern.
2. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
3. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
4. As this Code expresses the consensus of the profession on ethical issues, it is a means to educate both the public and aspiring professionals about the ethical obligations of all software engineers.
5. Ethical tensions can best be addressed by thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.
6. Work to follow professional standards, when available, that are most appropriate for the task at hand, departing from these only when ethically or technically justified.
7. However, even in this generality, the Code provides support for software engineers and managers of software engineers who need to take positive action in a specific case by documenting the ethical stance of the profession.
8. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
9. As this Code expresses the consensus of the profession on ethical issues, it is a means to educate both the public and aspiring professionals about the ethical obligations of all software engineers.
10. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.