1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Cooperate in efforts to address matters of grave public concern caused by software, its installation, maintenance, support or documentation.
5. 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.
6. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
7. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.
8. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
9. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
10. Disclose to appropriate persons or authorities any actual or potential danger to the user, the public, or the environment, that they reasonably believe to be associated with software or related documents.
1. 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.
2. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
3. 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.
4. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.
5. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
6. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.
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. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
9. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
10. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
1. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
3. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
4. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
5. Principle 3: PRODUCTSoftware engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.
6. Principle 7: COLLEAGUESSoftware engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.
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. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
1. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
3. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
4. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
5. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
6. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
7. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.
8. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
9. 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.
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. 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. 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.
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. 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.
7. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
8. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
9. 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.
10. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.