1. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
2. Moderate the interests of the software engineer, the employer, the client and the users with the public good.
3. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
4. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.
5. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.
6. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
7. Identify, document, and report significant issues of social concern, of which they are aware, in software or related documents, to the employer or the client.
8. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Strive for high quality, acceptable cost and a reasonable schedule, ensuring significant tradeoffs are clear to and accepted by the employer and the client, and are available for consideration by the user and the public.
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.
1. 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.
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. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
4. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.
5. 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.
6. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
7. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.
8. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.
9. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
10. 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.
1. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
2. 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.
3. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Strive for high quality, acceptable cost and a reasonable schedule, ensuring significant tradeoffs are clear to and accepted by the employer and the client, and are available for consideration by the user and the public.
4. 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.
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. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
7. 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.
8. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
9. 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.
10. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
1. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
5. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
6. Report significant violations of this Code to appropriate authorities when it is clear that consultation with people involved in these significant violations is impossible, counter-productive or dangerous.
7. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
8. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
9. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.
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.
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. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.
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. 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.
6. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
7. 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.
8. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
9. 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.
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.