1. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
2. Approve software only if they have a well-founded belief that it is safe, meets specifications, passes appropriate tests, and does not diminish quality of life, diminish privacy or harm the environment.
3. 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.
4. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
5. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
6. 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.
7. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
8. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.
9. Refuse to participate, as members or advisors, in a private, governmental or professional body concerned with software related issues, in which they, their employers or their clients have undisclosed potential conflicts of interest.
10. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
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. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
3. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent with the public interest.
4. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.
5. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
6. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
7. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
8. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.
9. 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.
10. 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.
1. 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.
2. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
3. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
4. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
5. To ensure, as much as possible, that their efforts will be used for good, software engineers must commit themselves to making software engineering a beneficial and respected profession.
6. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
7. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
8. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
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. 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. 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.
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 dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
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. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
8. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.
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. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.
1. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
2. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
3. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
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. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.
6. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .
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. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
9. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
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.