1. 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.
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. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
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. 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.
6. Not knowingly use software that is obtained or retained either illegally or unethically.
7. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
8. Consider issues of physical disabilities, allocation of resources, economic disadvantage and other factors that can diminish access to the benefits of software.
9. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
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. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
2. 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.
3. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
4. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.
5. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.
6. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
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. 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.
9. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
10. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
1. 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.
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. 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.
4. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Provide service in their areas of competence, being honest and forthright about any limitations of their experience and education.
5. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
6. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
7. 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.
8. 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.
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. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
1. 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.
2. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
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. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.
6. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
7. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
8. Avoid associations with businesses and organizations which are in conflict with this code.
9. 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.
10. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
1. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
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. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
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. 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.
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. 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.
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. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.