1. 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.
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. Maintain professional objectivity with respect to any software or related documents they are asked to evaluate.
4. Approve software only if they have a well-founded belief that it is safe, meets specifications, passes appropriate tests, and does not diminish quality of life, diminish privacy or harm the environment.
5. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Consider issues of physical disabilities, allocation of resources, economic disadvantage and other factors that can diminish access to the benefits of software.
9. Extend software engineering knowledge by appropriate participation in professional organizations, meetings and publications.
10. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
1. Assign work only after taking into account appropriate contributions of education and experience tempered with a desire to further that education and experience.
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. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
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. 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.
6. 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.
7. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
8. 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.
9. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.
10. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
1. 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.
2. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
3. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
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. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
6. 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.
7. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
8. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
9. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
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.
1. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
2. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
3. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
4. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
5. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
6. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
7. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
8. 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.
9. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
10. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
1. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
2. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
3. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
4. Ethical tensions can best be addressed by thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.
5. 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.
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. 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.
8. 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.
9. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
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.