1. 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.
2. Cooperate in efforts to address matters of grave public concern caused by software, its installation, maintenance, support or documentation.
3. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Disclose to appropriate persons or authorities any actual or potential danger to the user, the public, or the environment, that they reasonably believe to be associated with software or related documents.
7. Refuse to participate, as members or advisors, in a private, governmental or professional body concerned with software related issues, in which they, their employers or their clients have undisclosed potential conflicts of interest.
8. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
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. 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.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
4. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
5. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
6. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
7. The ultimate effect of the work should be to the public good.
8. Assign work only after taking into account appropriate contributions of education and experience tempered with a desire to further that education and experience.
9. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
10. 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.
1. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
7. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
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. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
10. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
1. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
2. 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.
3. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
4. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
5. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
6. 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.
7. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
8. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.
9. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
10. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
1. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
2. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
3. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
4. 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.
5. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
6. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
7. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
8. 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.
9. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .
10. 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.