1. These obligations are founded in the 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. 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.
4. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.
5. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
9. 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.
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.
1. Assist colleagues in being fully aware of current standard work practices including policies and procedures for protecting passwords, files and other confidential information, and security measures in general.
2. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
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. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
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. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
7. 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.
8. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent with the public interest.
9. 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.
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, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
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 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. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
8. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
9. 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.
10. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
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. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
3. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
4. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
5. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.
6. 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.
7. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
8. 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.
9. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
10. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
1. Ethical tensions can best be addressed by thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.
2. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.
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. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
5. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
6. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
7. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.