1. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
2. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.
3. 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.
4. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Cooperate in efforts to address matters of grave public concern caused by software, its installation, maintenance, support or documentation.
8. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’
9. 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.
10. In particular, software engineers shall continually endeavor to:Further their knowledge of developments in the analysis, specification, design, development, maintenance and testing of software and related documents, together with the management of the development process.
1. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.
2. 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.
3. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
4. 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.
5. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
6. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.
7. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.
8. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.
9. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
10. 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.
1. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
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 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
5. 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.
6. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
7. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
8. Principle 3: PRODUCTSoftware engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.
9. 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.
10. 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.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
4. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
5. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.
6. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
7. Avoid associations with businesses and organizations which are in conflict with this code.
8. 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.
9. 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.
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. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
2. 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.
3. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
4. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
5. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
6. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
7. 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.
8. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .
9. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.
10. 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.