SDEST: Software Engineering Code of Ethics

特别是在这个制度迅速变化的时代，职业的规范性主张提出了有趣而重要的问题来探索。 1993年，世界上两个最大的软件设计、开发、测试和维护协会（IEEE计算机协会和计算机械协会）成立了一个联合委员会，将“软件工程”作为一种职业来组织。这一努力的一个成果是1998年底IEEE-CS和ACM通过的“道德和专业实践守则”。守则的编写，大部分是通过电子邮件进行的，产生了一个专业守则编写记录，比任何其他守则都要完整得多，尽管其中大部分记录现在有丢失的危险。使用访谈以及检索电子信息，该项目将创建一个可公开访问的电子档案，其中包含所有与编写代码有关的电子邮件、备忘录和访谈。这些记录，连同其他材料，包括对参与者的采访，将构成一本书的基础，研究守则的起草、辩论和最终通过。这项研究有助于在规范和道德问题方面形成更复杂的职业概念。 该项目涉及一个研究团队，其中包括两个机构的几名研究生，伊利诺伊理工学院的软件工程伦理研究中心（CSEP），东田纳西州立大学的软件工程伦理研究所（SEERI）。一个咨询委员会为该项目提供额外的专门知识。

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.