1. 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.
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. 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.
4. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
5. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
6. Be fair and avoid deception in all statements, particularly public ones, concerning software or related documents, methods and tools.
7. 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.
8. Maintain professional objectivity with respect to any software or related documents they are asked to evaluate.
9. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
10. 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.
1. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
2. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
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. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.
5. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
6. 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.
7. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
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. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
10. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
1. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
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. 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. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
5. 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.
6. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
10. 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.
1. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
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. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.
4. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
5. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
6. 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.
7. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
8. 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.
9. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
10. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
1. 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.
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. 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. Ethical tensions can best be addressed by thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.
6. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.
7. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
8. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
10. 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.