1. 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.
2. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
3. 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.
4. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
5. 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.
6. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
7. Be fair and avoid deception in all statements, particularly public ones, concerning software or related documents, methods and tools.
8. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
9. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
10. Extend software engineering knowledge by appropriate participation in professional organizations, meetings and publications.
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. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
4. 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.
5. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
6. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.
7. 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.
8. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
9. Assign work only after taking into account appropriate contributions of education and experience tempered with a desire to further that education and experience.
10. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
1. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
2. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
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. 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.
5. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
6. Not unfairly intervene in the career of any colleague; however, concern for the employer, the client or public interest may compel software engineers, in good faith, to question the competence of a colleague.
7. 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.
8. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
9. Principle 7: COLLEAGUESSoftware engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.
10. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
1. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
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 violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
4. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.
5. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
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. 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. 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.
9. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
10. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Ethical tensions can best be addressed by thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.
7. 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.
8. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
9. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
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.