1. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.
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3. Not knowingly use software that is obtained or retained either illegally or unethically.
4. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
5. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.
6. Refuse to participate, as members or advisors, in a private, governmental or professional body concerned with software related issues, in which they, their employers or their clients have undisclosed potential conflicts of interest.
7. 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.
8. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
9. Be fair and avoid deception in all statements, particularly public ones, concerning software or related documents, methods and tools.
10. 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.
1. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.
2. 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.
3. 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.
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. 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.
6. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
7. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
8. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
9. 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.
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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. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
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4. 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.
5. 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.
6. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
7. 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.
8. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
9. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
10. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
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. 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. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
4. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.
8. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
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. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
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. 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. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
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. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
6. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
7. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
8. 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.
9. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.
10. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .