• DocumentCode
    3084728
  • Title

    Ethical considerations in software engineering

  • Author

    Gotterbarn, Donald

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., East Tennessee State Univ., Johnson City, TN, USA
  • fYear
    1991
  • fDate
    13-16 May 1991
  • Firstpage
    266
  • Lastpage
    274
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Software Engineering, 1991. Proceedings., 13th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Austin, TX
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-2140-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSE.1991.130652
  • Filename
    130652
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3084728