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. Be fair and avoid deception in all statements, particularly public ones, concerning software or related documents, methods and tools.
3. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
4. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
5. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
6. Extend software engineering knowledge by appropriate participation in professional organizations, meetings and publications.
7. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.
8. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
9. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
10. 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.
1. 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.
2. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.
3. 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.
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. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.
7. 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.
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. 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.
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. 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.
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, 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.
4. Principle 7: COLLEAGUESSoftware engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.
5. 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.
6. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
7. 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.
8. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
9. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
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. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
2. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
3. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
4. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to 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. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
7. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
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. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
4. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
5. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .
6. 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.
7. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
8. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
9. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
10. 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.