1. 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.
2. Approve software only if they have a well-founded belief that it is safe, meets specifications, passes appropriate tests, and does not diminish quality of life, diminish privacy or harm the environment.
3. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
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. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
6. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
7. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
1. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.
2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
3. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
4. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.
5. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.
6. 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.
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. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.
9. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.
10. 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.
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. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
3. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
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. 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.
6. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
10. 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.
1. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
2. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
3. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
4. Avoid associations with businesses and organizations which are in conflict with this code.
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. 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.
7. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
8. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
9. 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.
10. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
1. 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.
2. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
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. 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. 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.
9. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
10. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.