Title :
Ethical considerations in software engineering
Author :
Gotterbarn, Donald
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., East Tennessee State Univ., Johnson City, TN, USA
Abstract :
The author discusses ethical considerations that arise in the practice of software engineering and uses cases to help focus the discussion on ethical concerns in the practice of software engineering. The author comments on the relationship between software safety and ethics, informed consent and ethical decisions, the customer´s responsibility for end-product quality, internal performance standards and customer consent to inferior work, and techniques for addressing ethical issues
Keywords :
social aspects of automation; software engineering; end-product quality; ethical considerations; informed consent; performance standards; safety; software engineering; Cities and towns; Computer science; Engineering management; Ethics; Laboratories; Military computing; Software engineering; Software safety; Software standards; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering, 1991. Proceedings., 13th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2140-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICSE.1991.130652
