The compleat software engineering professional-doing the right thing as well as doing it right: five steps on the road to an ethics curriculum

Author

Godfrey, R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Appl. Comput. & Math., Tasmania Univ., Launceston, Tas., Australia

fYear

1996

fDate

24-27 Jan 1996

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

32

Abstract

A professional has two basic obligations-to do things right for their clients, and at the same time to do the right thing by society. For the software engineering professional, the quality agenda of sound methodological practice has come to the fore in recent years, but the concept of ethical behaviour, while present in the profession, has not appeared as often in software engineering curricula. This paper addresses this imbalance, and proposes a five stage process for the incorporation of ethics studies in software engineering education

Keywords

computer science education; professional aspects; software engineering; ethical behaviour; ethics curriculum; software engineering curricula; software engineering education; software engineering professional; sound methodological practice; Australia; Certification; Ethics; Law; Mathematics; Roads; Software engineering; Software standards; Software testing; Standards development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering: Education and Practice, 1996. Proceedings. International Conference

Conference_Location

Dunedin

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7379-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SEEP.1996.533977

Filename

533977