1. 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.
2. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
3. 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.
4. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
5. 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.
6. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
7. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .
8. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
9. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.
10. 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.
1. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.
2. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
3. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
4. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.
10. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
1. 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.
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. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
8. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
9. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
10. 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.
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. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
3. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
4. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
5. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
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. 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.
8. 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.
9. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
10. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.
1. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
2. 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.
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. 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 is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
6. 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.
7. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.
8. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
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. 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.