1. 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.
2. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
3. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’
4. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.
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. 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.
7. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
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. 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.
10. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
1. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
2. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent with the public interest.
3. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
4. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.
5. 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.
6. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
7. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
8. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
9. 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.
10. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
1. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
2. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
3. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
4. 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.
5. Principle 2: CLIENT AND EMPLOYERSoftware engineers shall act in a manner that is in the best interests of their client and employer, consistent with the public interest.
6. 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.
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, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
9. 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.
10. 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.
1. 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.
2. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.
3. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
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. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional 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. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
8. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
9. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
10. 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.
1. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
2. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
3. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
4. 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.
5. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
6. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
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. 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.
10. 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.