SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CODE OF
ETHICS ACCURATE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
Preamble (Short Version) - ANSWER The short version of the code summarizes aspirations at a high level
of the abstraction; the clauses that are included in the full version give examples and details of how
these aspirations change the way we act as software engineering professionals. Without the legalistic
and tedious; without the details, the aspirations can become high sounding but empty; together, the
aspirations and the details form a cohesive code.
How should software engineers commit themselves? - ANSWER By making the analysis, specification,
design, development, testing, maintenance of software a beneficial and respected profession.
Commitment to the health, safety and welfare of the public.
Software Engineers shall adhere to the following Eight Principles: - ANSWER 1. PUBLIC
2. CLIENT AND EMPLOYER
3. PRODUCT
4. JUDGMENT
5. MANAGEMENT
6. PROFESSION
7. COLLEAGUES
8. SELF
1. PUBLIC - ANSWER Software engineers shall act consistently with the public interest
2. CLIENT AND EMPLOYER - ANSWER Software engineers shall act in a manner that is in the best interests
of their client and employer consistent with the public interest
3. PRODUCT - ANSWER Software engineer shall ensure that their products and related modifications
meet the highest professional standards possible
, 4. JUDGMENT - ANSWER Software engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their
professional judgment
5. MANAGEMENT - ANSWER Software engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote
an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance.
6. PROFESSION - ANSWER Software engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the
profession consistent with the public interest.
7. COLLEAGUES - ANSWER Software engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues
8. SELF - ANSWER 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
Preamble (Full Version) - ANSWER Computers have a central and growing role in commerce, industry,
government, medicine, education, entertainment and society at large. Software engineers are those who
contribute by direct participation or by teaching, to the analysis, specification, design, and development,
and certification, maintenance, and testing of software systems. 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. 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. In accordance with that commitment,
software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
The Code contains - ANSWER eight Principles related to the behavior of and decisions made by
professional software engineers, including practitionars, educators, manages, supervisors and policy
makers, as well as trainees and students of the prfession,
The Principles identify - ANSWER the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and
organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationship.s
The Clauses of each Principle - ANSWER are illustrations of some of the obligations included in these
relationships. These obligations are founded in the software engineers' humanity, in special care owed to
people affected by the work of software engineers, and the unique elements of the practice of software
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