1. 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.
2. 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.
3. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
4. Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice (Full Version)PREAMBLEComputers have a central and growing role in commerce, industry, government, medicine, education, entertainment and society at large.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Recognize that personal violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
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. 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.
10. Moderate the interests of the software engineer, the employer, the client and the users with the public good.
1. 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.
2. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
3. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
4. Assign work only after taking into account appropriate contributions of education and experience tempered with a desire to further that education and experience.
5. 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.
6. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.
7. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
8. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.
9. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’
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. 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. Principle 3: PRODUCTSoftware engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.
3. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
4. 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.
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. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.
7. 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.
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 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.
10. 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.
1. 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.
2. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.
3. Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice (Full Version)PREAMBLEComputers have a central and growing role in commerce, industry, government, medicine, education, entertainment and society at large.
4. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.
5. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
6. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
7. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.
8. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.
10. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.
1. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
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. 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.
4. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
5. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
6. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
7. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
8. 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.
9. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
10. 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.