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. 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.
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. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
5. Consider issues of physical disabilities, allocation of resources, economic disadvantage and other factors that can diminish access to the benefits of software.
6. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Be fair and avoid deception in all statements, particularly public ones, concerning software or related documents, methods and tools.
1. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.
2. Be accurate in stating the characteristics of software on which they work, avoiding not only false claims but also claims that might reasonably be supposed to be speculative, vacuous, deceptive, misleading, or doubtful.
3. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent with the public interest.
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. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
6. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.
7. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.
8. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
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. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.
1. 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.
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 3: PRODUCTSoftware engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.
4. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.
5. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.
6. Principle 7: COLLEAGUESSoftware engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.
7. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
8. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.
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. 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.
1. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.
2. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.
3. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.
4. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.
5. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.
6. 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.
7. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.
8. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.
9. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
10. 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.
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. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.
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 is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
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. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.
7. 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.
8. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
9. 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.
10. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.