1. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
2. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
3. 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.
4. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
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. Extend software engineering knowledge by appropriate participation in professional organizations, meetings and publications.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
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. 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.
3. The ultimate effect of the work should be to the public good.
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 proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.
6. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
7. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
8. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.
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. 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.
2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Principle 7: COLLEAGUESSoftware engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.
6. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
7. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
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. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
10. Principle 3: PRODUCTSoftware engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.
1. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
2. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
6. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
7. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
8. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
9. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
10. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
1. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
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. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
4. 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.
5. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
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 provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
8. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.
9. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
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.