1. In particular, those managing or leading software engineers shall, as appropriate:Ensure good management for any project on which they work, including effective procedures for promotion of quality and reduction of risk.
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. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
4. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional 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. 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.
7. 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.
8. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
9. 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.
10. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
1. In particular, those managing or leading software engineers shall, as appropriate:Ensure good management for any project on which they work, including effective procedures for promotion of quality and reduction of risk.
2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.
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. 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.
8. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
9. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
10. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
1. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
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 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.
4. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
5. 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.
6. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
7. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
8. Principle 7: COLLEAGUESSoftware engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.
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10. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
1. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
2. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
3. 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.
4. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
5. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
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. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.
8. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
9. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
10. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
1. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
2. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .
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. 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.
5. Ethical tensions can best be addressed by thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.
6. 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.
7. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
8. 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.
9. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
10. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.