1. 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.
2. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.
3. Moderate the interests of the software engineer, the employer, the client and the users with the public good.
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 particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
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. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.
8. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
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. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
1. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
2. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
3. 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.
4. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
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. 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.
7. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.
8. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.
9. 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.
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. 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.
2. 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.
3. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
10. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
1. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.
2. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.
3. 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.
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 accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
6. 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.
7. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
8. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
9. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
10. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
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. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
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. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
5. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
6. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
7. 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.
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 Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
10. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .