1. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
2. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
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. 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.
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. Cooperate in efforts to address matters of grave public concern caused by software, its installation, maintenance, support or documentation.
7. 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.
8. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
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. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.
3. Assign work only after taking into account appropriate contributions of education and experience tempered with a desire to further that education and experience.
4. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent with the public interest.
5. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.
6. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
7. 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.
8. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.
9. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
10. Assist colleagues in being fully aware of current standard work practices including policies and procedures for protecting passwords, files and other confidential information, and security measures in general.
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:Provide service in their areas of competence, being honest and forthright about any limitations of their experience and education.
5. 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.
6. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
7. 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.
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. 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.
10. Principle 7: COLLEAGUESSoftware engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.
1. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.
2. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
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 ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
6. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
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. 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. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
10. Avoid associations with businesses and organizations which are in conflict with this code.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
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. 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. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
7. 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.
8. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
9. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
10. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.