1. Ensure that clients, employers, and supervisors know of the software engineer's commitment to this Code of ethics, and the subsequent ramifications of such commitment.
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. 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. 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. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
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. Moderate the interests of the software engineer, the employer, the client and the users with the public good.
8. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
9. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional 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:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
2. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
3. 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.
4. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.
5. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
6. 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.
7. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
8. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.
9. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
10. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.
1. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
5. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
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. 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. 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. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
10. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
1. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
2. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
3. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
4. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
5. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.
6. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
7. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Avoid associations with businesses and organizations which are in conflict with 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. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
3. 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.
4. Ethical tensions can best be addressed by thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.
5. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
6. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
7. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
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 helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
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.