1. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
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. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
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. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
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. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
1. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
2. 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.
3. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
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. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
6. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
7. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.
8. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent with the public interest.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
10. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
1. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
2. 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.
3. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
4. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
5. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
6. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
7. 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.
8. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
9. Principle 3: PRODUCTSoftware engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.
10. Principle 7: COLLEAGUESSoftware engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.
1. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
2. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
3. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
4. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
5. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.
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. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
8. Avoid associations with businesses and organizations which are in conflict with 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. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
1. Ethical tensions can best be addressed by thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.
2. 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.
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. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
5. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
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 is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.