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. 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.
3. Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice (Full Version)PREAMBLEComputers have a central and growing role in commerce, industry, government, medicine, education, entertainment and society at large.
4. 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.
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. Extend software engineering knowledge by appropriate participation in professional organizations, meetings and publications.
7. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
8. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’
9. Ensure that there is a fair agreement concerning ownership of any software, processes, research, writing, or other intellectual property to which a software engineer has contributed.
10. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
1. 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.
2. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
3. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
4. Assign work only after taking into account appropriate contributions of education and experience tempered with a desire to further that education and experience.
5. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.
6. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
7. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
8. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
9. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.
10. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
1. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
2. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
3. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
4. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
5. 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.
6. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
7. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
1. In all these judgments concern for the health, safety and welfare of the public is primary; that is, the "Public Interest" is central to this Code.
2. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.
3. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
4. Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice (Full Version)PREAMBLEComputers have a central and growing role in commerce, industry, government, medicine, education, entertainment and society at large.
5. 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.
6. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
7. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
8. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
9. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.
10. 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.
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. 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.
3. 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.
4. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .
5. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
6. 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.
7. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
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. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.