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. 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.
3. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.
4. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’
5. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
6. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
7. 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.
8. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
9. Treat all forms of software maintenance with the same professionalism as new development.
10. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
1. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
2. 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.
3. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
4. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
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. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
7. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.
8. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent with the public interest.
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. 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.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
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. 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.
6. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
7. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
1. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
2. 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.
3. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
4. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.
5. 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.
6. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
7. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
8. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
10. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional 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 Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
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. 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. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
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. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
9. 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.
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.