Principles(Continues)

Principle 3: Product

Software engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible. In particular software engineers shall, as appropriate:
3.01 Strive for high quality, acceptable cost and 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.
3.02 Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or purpose.
3.03 Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural legal and environmental issues related to work projects.
3.04 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.
3.05 Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.
3.06 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.
3.07 Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.
3.08 Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the user’s requirements and have the appropriate approvals.
3.09 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.
3.10 Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.

3.11 Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.
3.12 Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.
3.13 Be careful to use only accurate date derived by ethical and lawful means and use it only in ways properly authorized.
3.14 Maintain the integrity of data being sensitive to outdated or flawed occurences.
3.15 Treat all forms of software maintenance with the same professionalism as new development.