1. 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.
2. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
3. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
4. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
5. 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.
6. Maintain professional objectivity with respect to any software or related documents they are asked to evaluate.
7. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
8. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
9. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
10. Ensure that there is a fair agreement concerning ownership of any software, processes, research, writing, or other intellectual property to which a software engineer has contributed.
1. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
2. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.
6. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
7. 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.
8. Assign work only after taking into account appropriate contributions of education and experience tempered with a desire to further that education and experience.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
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:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
2. 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.
3. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
4. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
5. 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.
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. 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. 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.
9. 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.
10. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
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. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
6. 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.
7. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.
8. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
9. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
10. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
1. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.
2. 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.
3. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .
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. 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. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
8. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
9. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
10. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.