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. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
3. 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.
4. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.
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. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
7. Extend software engineering knowledge by appropriate participation in professional organizations, meetings and publications.
8. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
9. Moderate the interests of the software engineer, the employer, the client and the users with the public good.
10. Ensure that there is a fair agreement concerning ownership of any software, processes, research, writing, or other intellectual property to which a software engineer has contributed.
1. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.
2. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.
3. 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.
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. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
6. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
7. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
8. 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.
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. 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.
1. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
2. 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.
3. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
4. 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.
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. 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. 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.
8. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
9. 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.
10. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
1. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
2. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
3. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
4. Avoid associations with businesses and organizations which are in conflict with this code.
5. 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.
6. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.
7. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
8. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
9. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
10. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
1. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
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. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
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. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
6. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
7. 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.
8. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
9. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
10. 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.