1. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
2. 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.
3. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.
4. Maintain professional objectivity with respect to any software or related documents they are asked to evaluate.
5. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
6. Not knowingly use software that is obtained or retained either illegally or unethically.
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 there is a fair agreement concerning ownership of any software, processes, research, writing, or other intellectual property to which a software engineer has contributed.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
10. 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.
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. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
3. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.
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. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
6. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
7. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
8. Be accurate in stating the characteristics of software on which they work, avoiding not only false claims but also claims that might reasonably be supposed to be speculative, vacuous, deceptive, misleading, or doubtful.
9. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.
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. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
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. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
4. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
5. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
6. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
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. 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.
2. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
3. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
4. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
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6. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
7. 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.
8. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
9. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
10. 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.
1. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
2. 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.
3. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
4. 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.
5. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of 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. Ethical tensions can best be addressed by thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.
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.