1. Not knowingly use software that is obtained or retained either illegally or unethically.
2. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
3. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
4. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents 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. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
7. 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.
8. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
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. 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.
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. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.
4. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.
5. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent with the public interest.
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. 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. 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.
9. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
10. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
1. 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.
2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
3. 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.
4. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Strive for high quality, acceptable cost and a reasonable schedule, ensuring significant tradeoffs are clear to and accepted by the employer and the client, and are available for consideration by the user and the public.
5. 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.
6. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
7. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
8. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
9. 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.
10. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
1. 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.
2. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
3. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
4. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
5. 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.
6. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
7. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
8. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
9. 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.
10. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
1. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
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. 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.
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. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.
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. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
8. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
9. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
10. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .