1. 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.
2. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
3. Be fair and avoid deception in all statements, particularly public ones, concerning software or related documents, methods and tools.
4. 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.
5. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
6. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
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. 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.
9. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
10. Treat all forms of software maintenance with the same professionalism as new development.
1. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
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. 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.
4. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
5. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.
6. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.
7. 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.
8. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
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. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.
1. 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.
2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
3. 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.
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, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
6. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
7. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
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. Principle 3: PRODUCTSoftware engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.
10. 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.
1. 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.
2. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
3. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
4. 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.
5. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
6. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.
10. 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.
1. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
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. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
6. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
7. 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.
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. 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.