1. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .
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. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
4. 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.
5. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
6. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
7. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.
8. 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.
9. Extend software engineering knowledge by appropriate participation in professional organizations, meetings and publications.
10. Cooperate in efforts to address matters of grave public concern caused by software, its installation, maintenance, support or documentation.
1. Assign work only after taking into account appropriate contributions of education and experience tempered with a desire to further that education and experience.
2. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.
3. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
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. 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.
6. 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.
7. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
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. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
10. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
1. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
3. 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.
4. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
8. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
9. 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.
10. 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.
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. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
3. Avoid associations with businesses and organizations which are in conflict with this code.
4. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
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. 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.
7. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
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. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
10. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
1. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .
2. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
3. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
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. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
7. 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.
8. Ethical tensions can best be addressed by thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.
9. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
10. 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.