Software Engineering Ethics - CSSECenter for Systems ：软件工程伦理为中心系统的话.ppt

* * * * * * * ? USC-CSSE University of Southern California Center for Software Engineering C S E USC ? USC-CSSE * Barry Boehm Fall 2011 Software Engineering Ethics * ? USC-CSSE * Outline Definitions and context Power to do public harm or good ACM/IEEE Software Engineering Code of Ethics Principles and examples Rawls’ Theory of Justice Relation to stakeholder win-win Case study: Mercy Hospital Integrating ethics into daily software engineering practices VBSE/MBASE/Win Win Spiral Model CS 577 ethics situations * ? USC-CSSE * Definition of “Ethics”-Webster, 1993 The discipline dealing with what is good and bad And with moral duty and obligation A theory, system, or set of moral principles or values The principles of conduct governing an individual or group Professional ethics * ? USC-CSSE * Context Software engineers have increasing power to do public harm or good Intellectual property, privacy, confidentiality, quality of work, fairness, liability, risk disclosure, conflict of interest, unauthorized access Professional societies have developed codes of ethics Hard to integrate value-based ethics into value-neutral software engineering practices VBSE/MBASE/Win Win Spiral enable ethics integration * ? USC-CSSE * Power to Do Public Harm or Good – I Intellectual Property: use without credit; use copyrighted material Privacy: credit, health, personal information Confidentiality: competitive information, political sensitivity Quality of work: many dimensions; see table * ? USC-CSSE * Example: Confidentiality Government agency hires company to support SW procurement Provides data under nondisclosure agreement Employee and company consultant prepare cost estimate Employee: “ I don’t see how anyone can do all this for $8M” Consultant provides $8M target cost to some bidders Government agency angry with company for leak Whose fault? How could it be avoided? * ? USC-CSSE * Quality Concerns Vary by Stakeholders Role ? ? ? ? Mission - ? ? ? ? Protection ? ?