1. Identify, document, and report significant issues of social concern, of which they are aware, in software or related documents, to the employer or the client.
2. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
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. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
5. 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.
6. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
7. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
8. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
9. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
10. Extend software engineering knowledge by appropriate participation in professional organizations, meetings and publications.
1. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
2. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.
3. 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.
4. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
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. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.
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. 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. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.
10. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.
1. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
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. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
4. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
8. 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.
9. Principle 3: PRODUCTSoftware engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.
10. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
1. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
2. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
6. 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.
7. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.
8. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
9. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
10. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
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. 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.
3. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
4. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
5. 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.
6. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
7. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
8. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
9. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
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.