1. 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.
2. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.
3. Be fair and avoid deception in all statements, particularly public ones, concerning software or related documents, methods and tools.
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. 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. Cooperate in efforts to address matters of grave public concern caused by software, its installation, maintenance, support or documentation.
7. 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.
8. Extend software engineering knowledge by appropriate participation in professional organizations, meetings and publications.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
10. Consider issues of physical disabilities, allocation of resources, economic disadvantage and other factors that can diminish access to the benefits of software.
1. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
2. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
3. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
4. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.
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. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
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. 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.
9. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.
10. 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.
1. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
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. 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. Principle 3: PRODUCTSoftware engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.
5. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
6. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
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. 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.
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. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
1. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
2. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
3. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
4. 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.
5. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
6. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.
7. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
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. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.
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. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
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. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
6. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
7. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
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. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .