1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Approve software only if they have a well-founded belief that it is safe, meets specifications, passes appropriate tests, and does not diminish quality of life, diminish privacy or harm the environment.
4. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
5. Identify, document, and report significant issues of social concern, of which they are aware, in software or related documents, to the employer or the client.
6. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
7. Treat all forms of software maintenance with the same professionalism as new development.
8. 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.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Provide service in their areas of competence, being honest and forthright about any limitations of their experience and education.
10. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
1. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.
2. Ensure that they are qualified for any project on which they work or propose to work by an appropriate combination of education and training, and experience.
3. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.
4. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
5. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
6. Ensure that they are qualified for any project on which they work or propose to work by an appropriate combination of education and training, and experience.
7. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
8. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
9. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent with the public interest.
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. Because of their roles in developing software systems, software engineers have significant opportunities to do good or cause harm, to enable others to do good or cause harm, or to influence others to do good or cause harm.
2. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
6. Principle 2: CLIENT AND EMPLOYERSoftware engineers shall act in a manner that is in the best interests of their client and employer, consistent with the public interest.
7. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
8. Not unfairly intervene in the career of any colleague; however, concern for the employer, the client or public interest may compel software engineers, in good faith, to question the competence of a colleague.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
10. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
1. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
2. 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.
3. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
4. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.
5. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
6. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
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. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
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. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.
1. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.
2. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
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. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
5. These situations require the software engineer to use ethical judgment to act in a manner which is most consistent with the spirit of the Code of Ethics and Professional Practice, given the circumstances.
6. 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.
7. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
8. 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.
9. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
10. 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.