1. 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.
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. 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.
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. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.
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. Maintain professional objectivity with respect to any software or related documents they are asked to evaluate.
9. Treat all forms of software maintenance with the same professionalism as new development.
10. 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.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
4. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
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. 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.
7. 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.
8. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
9. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.
10. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
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. 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.
3. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
4. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
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. 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.
7. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
8. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
9. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
10. 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.
1. Avoid associations with businesses and organizations which are in conflict with this code.
2. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.
3. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
4. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
5. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
6. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.
7. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
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. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
10. 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.
1. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
3. 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.
4. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
5. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
6. 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.
7. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
8. 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.
9. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.
10. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.