1. Refuse to participate, as members or advisors, in a private, governmental or professional body concerned with software related issues, in which they, their employers or their clients have undisclosed potential conflicts of interest.
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. 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. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
5. 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.
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. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’
8. Disclose to appropriate persons or authorities any actual or potential danger to the user, the public, or the environment, that they reasonably believe to be associated with software or related documents.
9. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
10. Consider issues of physical disabilities, allocation of resources, economic disadvantage and other factors that can diminish access to the benefits of software.
1. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
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. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.
4. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
5. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. The ultimate effect of the work should be to the public good.
9. 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.
10. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
1. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
2. 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.
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. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
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. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
2. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
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. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
5. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
6. 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.
7. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
8. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
9. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
10. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
1. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
2. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
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. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
5. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
6. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
7. Ethical tensions can best be addressed by thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.
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. 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. 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.