1. 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.
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 helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
4. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
5. 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.
6. Be fair and avoid deception in all statements, particularly public ones, concerning software or related documents, methods and tools.
7. 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.
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. 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.
10. Consider issues of physical disabilities, allocation of resources, economic disadvantage and other factors that can diminish access to the benefits of software.
1. 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.
2. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent with the public interest.
3. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
4. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.
5. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
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. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
1. Ensure that software engineers know the employer's policies and procedures for protecting passwords, files and information that is confidential to the employer or confidential to others.
2. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
3. 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.
4. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
5. 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.
6. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
7. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
1. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
2. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
3. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
4. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
5. In all these judgments concern for the health, safety and welfare of the public is primary; that is, the "Public Interest" is central to this Code.
6. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
7. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
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. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.
10. 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.
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. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
3. 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.
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. 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. 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.
8. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
9. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .
10. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.