1. 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.
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. Consider issues of physical disabilities, allocation of resources, economic disadvantage and other factors that can diminish access to the benefits of software.
5. 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.
6. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
7. 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.
8. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.
9. Not knowingly use software that is obtained or retained either illegally or unethically.
10. Refuse to participate, as members or advisors, in a private, governmental or professional body concerned with software related issues, in which they, their employers or their clients have undisclosed potential conflicts of interest.
1. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
2. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.
3. The ultimate effect of the work should be to the public good.
4. 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.
5. Assign work only after taking into account appropriate contributions of education and experience tempered with a desire to further that education and experience.
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. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.
8. 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.
9. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
10. 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.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
5. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
6. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
7. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
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. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
10. 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.
1. 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.
2. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
3. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
4. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
5. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
6. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
7. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
8. 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.
9. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
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.
1. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
2. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
3. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Ethical tensions can best be addressed by thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.
9. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
10. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.