1. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
5. 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.
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. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
8. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
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. 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.
1. 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.
2. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.
3. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.
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 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.
6. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.
7. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.
8. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
9. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
10. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.
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. 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.
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. 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.
5. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
9. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
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. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
2. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.
3. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
4. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
5. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
6. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
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. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
9. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
10. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.
1. 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.
2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
6. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
7. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
8. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .
9. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
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.