Software Professionals, Malpractice Law, and Codes of Ethics: In pursuit of professional status for computing professionals.

The article examines codes of ethics and malpractice law as they pertain to computer software professionals. The professional ethics of software developers are scrutinized within the classification of computing as a profession under U.S. tort law and the potential legal liability of developers under...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 64; no. 5; pp. 22 - 25
Main Author: Choi, Bryan H.
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery May2021
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