SDEST: Software Engineering Code of Ethics

特别是在这个快速变化的制度时代，职业的规范性要求提出了有趣而重要的问题来探索。1993年，世界上最大的两个设计、开发、测试和维护软件的协会（IEEE计算机协会和计算机协会）组成了一个联合委员会，将“软件工程”作为一种职业组织起来。这一努力的成果是IEEE-CS和ACM于1998年底通过的“道德和专业行为准则”。代码的编写大部分是通过电子邮件进行的，它产生了一份专业代码的编写记录，比任何其他记录都要完整得多，尽管其中大部分记录现在有丢失的危险。通过访谈和检索电子信息，该项目将创建一个可公开访问的电子档案，其中包含所有可以获得的与代码编写有关的电子邮件、备忘录和访谈。该记录连同其他材料，包括对与会者的访谈，将构成对守则的起草、辩论和最终通过进行一本书长度研究的基础。这项研究有助于在规范和道德问题方面产生更复杂的职业概念。该项目涉及一组研究人员，其中包括两所机构的几名研究生，伊利诺伊理工学院的职业伦理研究中心（CSEP）和东田纳西州立大学的软件工程伦理研究所（SEERI）。顾问委员会为项目提供额外的专业知识。

Especially at this time of rapidly changing institutions, the normative claims of professions raise interesting and important questions to explore. In 1993, the world's two largest associations of those who design, develop, test, and maintain software (the IEEE Computer Society and the Association of Computing Machinery) formed a joint committee to organize "software engineering" as a profession. A product of that effort is a "Code of Ethics and Professional Practice" adopted by both IEEE-CS and ACM late in 1998. The writing of the code, carried out in substantial part by e-mail, has produced a record of the writing of a professional code that is far fuller than that of any other, though much of that record is now in danger of being lost. Using interviews as well as retrieving electronic information, the project will create a publicly acccessible electronic archive of all e-mail, memos, and interviews it can obtain relating to the writing of the code. That record, together with additional materials, including the interviews with participants, will form the basis for a a book length study of the drafting, debate, and ultimate adoption of the code. This research can help to engender a more sophisticated conception of profession with respect to normative and ethical issues. The project involves a team of researchers including several graduate students at two institutions, the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions (CSEP), of Illinois Institute of Technology, with the Software Engineering Ethics Research Institute (SEERI), of East Tennessee State University. An advisory board provides additional expertise to the project.