1. Refuse to participate, as members or advisors, in a private, governmental or professional body concerned with software related issues, in which they, their employers or their clients have undisclosed potential conflicts of interest.
2. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
3. 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.
4. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .
5. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
6. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.
1. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
2. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
3. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
4. 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.
5. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.
6. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
7. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.
8. 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.
9. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.
10. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.
1. 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.
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. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.
4. 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.
5. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
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. 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.
8. 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.
9. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
10. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
1. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
2. 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.
3. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
4. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
5. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
6. Avoid associations with businesses and organizations which are in conflict with this code.
7. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.
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 prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
10. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
1. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
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. Ethical tensions can best be addressed by thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.
4. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
5. 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.
6. 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.
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. 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. 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. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.