1. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.
2. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
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. 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.
5. 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.
6. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
7. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
8. 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.
9. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
10. 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.
1. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.
2. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
3. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent with the public interest.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Assist colleagues in being fully aware of current standard work practices including policies and procedures for protecting passwords, files and other confidential information, and security measures in general.
9. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
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. 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.
2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
3. Principle 7: COLLEAGUESSoftware engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.
4. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
5. 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.
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. 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. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
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 particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
1. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
2. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
3. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
4. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
5. 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.
6. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
7. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
8. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
9. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.
10. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
1. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .
2. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
3. 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.
4. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
5. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
6. 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.
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. 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. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.