1. Consider issues of physical disabilities, allocation of resources, economic disadvantage and other factors that can diminish access to the benefits of software.
2. 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.
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. 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. 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. 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. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
9. 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.
10. 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.
1. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
2. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
3. 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.
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. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
6. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.
7. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.
8. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.
9. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.
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. 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.
2. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
3. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
4. Principle 7: COLLEAGUESSoftware engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.
5. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
6. 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.
7. 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.
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. 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.
10. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
1. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.
2. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
3. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
4. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.
5. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
6. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
7. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
8. 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.
9. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
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. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .
2. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
3. 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.
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. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
6. 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.
7. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
8. 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.
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. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.