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. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
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. Not knowingly use software that is obtained or retained either illegally or unethically.
5. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
6. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.
7. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
8. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Provide service in their areas of competence, being honest and forthright about any limitations of their experience and education.
10. Be fair and avoid deception in all statements, particularly public ones, concerning software or related documents, methods and tools.
1. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
2. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.
3. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
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 adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
6. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
7. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.
8. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
9. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
10. 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.
1. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
3. Principle 7: COLLEAGUESSoftware engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.
4. Principle 3: PRODUCTSoftware engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.
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. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
10. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
1. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
2. 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.
3. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
4. 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.
5. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
6. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
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. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.
10. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
1. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
2. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.
3. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
4. 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.
5. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
6. 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.
7. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
8. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
9. 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.
10. 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.