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 fair and avoid deception in all statements, particularly public ones, concerning software or related documents, methods and tools.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
6. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
7. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
8. Cooperate in efforts to address matters of grave public concern caused by software, its installation, maintenance, support or documentation.
9. 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.
10. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
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. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
3. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
4. 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.
5. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
6. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
7. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.
8. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
9. 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.
10. 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.
1. 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.
2. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
3. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
4. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
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. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
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. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.
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. 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.
5. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
6. 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.
7. Avoid associations with businesses and organizations which are in conflict with this code.
8. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
9. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
10. 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.
1. 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.
2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
3. 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.
4. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
5. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
6. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
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 is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
9. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
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.