1. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
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3. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they 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. Not knowingly use software that is obtained or retained either illegally or unethically.
6. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
7. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
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. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.
10. 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.
1. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.
2. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.
3. 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.
4. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
5. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
6. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.
7. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.
8. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
10. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
1. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
2. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
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. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
5. 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.
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:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
8. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Provide service in their areas of competence, being honest and forthright about any limitations of their experience and education.
9. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
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. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
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3. Report significant violations of this Code to appropriate authorities when it is clear that consultation with people involved in these significant violations is impossible, counter-productive or dangerous.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
7. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
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 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.
10. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
1. 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.
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. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.
5. 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.
6. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
7. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
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. 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. 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.