1. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.
2. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’
3. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
4. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
5. 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.
6. Moderate the interests of the software engineer, the employer, the client and the users with the public good.
7. 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.
8. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.
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. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
1. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
2. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.
3. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
4. 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.
5. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.
6. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.
7. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
8. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
9. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.
10. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent with the public interest.
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. 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. Principle 7: COLLEAGUESSoftware engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.
4. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
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. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
1. 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.
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. 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.
4. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
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 helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
8. 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.
9. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
10. Ensure that clients, employers, and supervisors know of the software engineer's commitment to this Code of ethics, and the subsequent ramifications of such commitment.
1. 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.
2. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.
3. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
4. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .
5. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
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. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
8. 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.
9. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
10. 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.