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The software engineering code of ethics and professional practice
Produced by the institution if electrical and electronics engineer computer society (IEEECS)
and the association of computing machinery (ACM), act as a professional standards for the
teaching and practicing software engineering
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Products
“Software Engineers shall ensure that their product and related modification meet the
highest professional standards possible
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1 Ensure adequate software specification
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2 Understands specification fully
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3 Ensure you are suitably qualified
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4 Ensure your all goals are achievable
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5 Ensure proper methodology is used
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6 Ensure good project management
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7 Ensure all estimates are realistic
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8 Ensure adequate documentation
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9 Ensure adequate testing and debugging
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10 Promote privacy if individuals
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” (integrity is honesty, any software engineer is asked about any of the
work his statements should not be influenced by anything and anyone
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1 Maintain professional objectivity
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2 Only sign documents within your responsibility
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3 Reject bribery
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4 Do not accept secret payments from the client
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5 Accept payment from only one source for a job
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6 Disclose conflict of interest
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understand conflict of interest consider a simple scenario; in hospital for their
equipment and beds the quotation was given, the doctors got tempted to bribery
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(Competency is the ability, do not do
anything about which you don’t have the skill and knowledge
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2 Ensure resources are authentically approved
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3 Only use property as authorized by the owner
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4 Do not use illegally obtain software
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5 Honour confidentiality of information
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6 Raise matters of social concern
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7 Inform when the project becomes problematic
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8 Accept no outside work detrimental (which cause harm) to the work they perform
for their primarily employer
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9 Represent no interest adverse to your employer
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Management
“Software engineer managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical
approach to the management of software development and maintenance
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1 Assure standards are known by the employees
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2 Assure employees know the employers politics and procedures for protecting
password, files and other confidential information
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3 Assign work according to competence
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4 Provide due process for code violation
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It is a legal requirement
that the state must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person
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5 Develop fair ownership agreements
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6 Accurately describe condition of deployment
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7 Only offer fair and just remuneration
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8 Do not prevent a subordinates promotion
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9 Do not ask a person to breech this code
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Profession
“Software Engineer shall advance the integrity and reputation of profession consistent
with the public interest”
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6 Take responsibility of errors
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7 Only accept appropriate remuneration
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8 Be accurate and honest regarding the software
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9 Place professional interest before personal
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10 Obey all laws governing your work
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11 Exercise professional responsibility
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12 Promote public knowledge of the subject
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13 Share software knowledge with the profession
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Colleagues
“Software Engineer shall be fair and supportive of their colleagues
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1 Assist colleagues in professional development
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2 Review others work only with consent
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3 Credit fully the work of others
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4 Review others work candidly
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5 Give a fair hearing to the opinion, concerned, or complaint of the colleague
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6 Assist colleague in being fully aware of current standard work practices including
policies and procedures for protecting passwords, files, security measure in
general and other confidential information
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7 Do not hinder a colleague’s career
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8 Do not pursue a job offered to a colleague
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9 Seek health with work outside your competence
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Self
“Software engineers shall participate in lifelong learning regarding the practice of
their profession and shall promote an ethical approach to the practice of the
profession”
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