1. 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.
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. 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. 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.
5. Maintain professional objectivity with respect to any software or related documents they are asked to evaluate.
6. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
7. 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.
8. Moderate the interests of the software engineer, the employer, the client and the users with the public good.
9. 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.
10. 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.
1. Assign work only after taking into account appropriate contributions of education and experience tempered with a desire to further that education and experience.
2. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.
3. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.
4. The ultimate effect of the work should be to the public good.
5. 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.
6. 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.
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 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.
9. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
10. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
1. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
2. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
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:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
5. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
6. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
7. Principle 3: PRODUCTSoftware engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.
8. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
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. 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.
1. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
2. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
3. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
4. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.
5. 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.
6. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
7. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
8. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
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. 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.
1. 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.
2. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
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. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
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. 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. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.
9. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
10. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.