1. 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.
2. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
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. 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.
5. Maintain professional objectivity with respect to any software or related documents they are asked to evaluate.
6. 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.
7. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
8. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.
9. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
10. 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.
1. 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.
2. Assign work only after taking into account appropriate contributions of education and experience tempered with a desire to further that education and experience.
3. 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.
4. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
5. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
6. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
7. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
8. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
9. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
10. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.
1. Principle 3: PRODUCTSoftware engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.
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 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
4. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
5. In particular, those managing or leading software engineers shall, as appropriate:Ensure good management for any project on which they work, including effective procedures for promotion of quality and reduction of risk.
6. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
7. 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.
8. Principle 7: COLLEAGUESSoftware engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.
9. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
10. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
1. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
2. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
3. 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.
4. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.
5. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.
6. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
7. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
8. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
9. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
10. 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.
1. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
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. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.
5. 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.
6. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
7. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
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. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .
10. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.