1. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .
2. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.
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. Cooperate in efforts to address matters of grave public concern caused by software, its installation, maintenance, support or documentation.
5. 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.
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. Maintain professional objectivity with respect to any software or related documents they are asked to evaluate.
9. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
10. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
1. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.
2. 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.
3. Assist colleagues in being fully aware of current standard work practices including policies and procedures for protecting passwords, files and other confidential information, and security measures in general.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.
7. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.
8. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.
9. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.
10. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
1. 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.
2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
3. 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.
4. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
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. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
7. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
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. 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. Principle 7: COLLEAGUESSoftware engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.
1. 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.
2. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
3. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.
4. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
5. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
6. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
7. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
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. 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.
10. 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.
1. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.
2. 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.
3. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.
4. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
5. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.
6. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
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. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
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. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.