1. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
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. Extend software engineering knowledge by appropriate participation in professional organizations, meetings and publications.
4. Identify, document, and report significant issues of social concern, of which they are aware, in software or related documents, to the employer or the client.
5. 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.
6. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
7. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
8. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
9. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.
10. 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.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
4. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
5. 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.
6. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.
7. 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.
8. Assign work only after taking into account appropriate contributions of education and experience tempered with a desire to further that education and experience.
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. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
1. 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.
2. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
3. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
4. 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.
5. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
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. 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. Avoid associations with businesses and organizations which are in conflict with this code.
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 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. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
5. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
6. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
7. 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.
8. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
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. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.
1. 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.
2. 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.
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. 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.
5. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
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. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
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. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
10. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.