Software Engineering: A New Professionalism
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...This means that it is very hard to see how IS professionals could be subject to effective regulation and this is a perennial problem in the world of computer ethics (Gotterbarn 1997, Johnson 2001)....
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...However, the development of professional ethical codes is as much related to the IS community’s attempts at becoming a distinct, recognisable profession, as it is to do with regulating the activities of its members (Gotterbarn 1997)....
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...Similarly, within computer ethics, although there is much interest in professionalism and professional codes (Gotterbarn 1997), and some concern with accountability and responsibility, the spotlight tends to play on safety-critical or life-critical systems (Nissenbaum 1995), rather than on software…...
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...Moreover, we acknowledge that with intermediaries, such as implementation consultants, involved in software selling, and the packaged software industry more generally, there are even more “hands” involved....
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...From the IS literature there is little discussion on selling software products in general and especially from the ethical point of view....
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These codes indicate an awareness that a different sense of professionalism is required for Software Engineering to be a profession.
I argue that the traditional concept of professionalism is not appropriate for Software Engineering.
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