1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .
4. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
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. 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.
7. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
8. Extend software engineering knowledge by appropriate participation in professional organizations, meetings and publications.
9. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
10. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.
1. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
5. 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.
6. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
7. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.
8. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
9. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
10. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
1. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
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 accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
8. 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.
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. 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.
1. 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.
2. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
3. Avoid associations with businesses and organizations which are in conflict with this code.
4. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
5. 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.
6. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.
7. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
8. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
9. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
10. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
1. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
5. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
6. 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.
7. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
8. 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.
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. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.