1. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
2. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.
3. 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.
4. Consider issues of physical disabilities, allocation of resources, economic disadvantage and other factors that can diminish access to the benefits of software.
5. 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.
6. 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.
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. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
10. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
1. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
2. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
3. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
4. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.
5. 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.
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. Assign work only after taking into account appropriate contributions of education and experience tempered with a desire to further that education and experience.
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. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.
1. 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.
2. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
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. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
5. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
6. 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.
7. 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.
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. 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.
10. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
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. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
3. Avoid associations with businesses and organizations which are in conflict with this code.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
7. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
8. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
9. 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.
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. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
5. 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.
6. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
7. Ethical tensions can best be addressed by thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.
8. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
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. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.