1. 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.
2. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
3. Ensure that software engineers know the employer's policies and procedures for protecting passwords, files and information that is confidential to the employer or confidential to others.
4. 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.
5. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
6. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
7. 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.
8. Extend software engineering knowledge by appropriate participation in professional organizations, meetings and publications.
9. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
10. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
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. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
4. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
5. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
6. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
7. The ultimate effect of the work should be to the public good.
8. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.
9. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
10. Be accurate in stating the characteristics of software on which they work, avoiding not only false claims but also claims that might reasonably be supposed to be speculative, vacuous, deceptive, misleading, or doubtful.
1. 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.
2. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
3. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
4. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
5. 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.
6. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
7. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
8. 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.
9. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
10. Principle 8: SELFSoftware engineers shall participate in lifelong learning regarding the practice of their profession and shall promote an ethical approach to the practice of the profession.
1. 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.
2. Ensure that clients, employers, and supervisors know of the software engineer's commitment to this Code of ethics, and the subsequent ramifications of such commitment.
3. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
4. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
5. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.
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. 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.
8. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
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. Avoid associations with businesses and organizations which are in conflict with this code.
1. 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.
2. 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.
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. Ethical tensions can best be addressed by thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.
5. Principle 8: SELFSoftware engineers shall participate in lifelong learning regarding the practice of their profession and shall promote an ethical approach to the practice of the profession.
6. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
7. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
8. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .
9. 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.
10. 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.