Code Making
How Software Engineering Became a Profession
Michael Davis, a senior fellow of CSEP, was a participant observer throughout the drafting of the Software Engineering Code of Ethics and afterwards wrote a detailed account of how the code was developed by the ACM and IEEE-CS committee. “Code Making” gives insight in how the profession of software engineering was formed and wrote its own code of professional ethics, and also looks at this project as a case study to see how other professional societies can better go about drafting and revising their own codes of ethics. The entire book is available for download under a Creative Commons license.
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of Contents, Preface (41
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Chapter One: This History, Professions,
and their Ethics (61
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Part One: Slow Starts and Wrong Turns
Chapter Two: Before SEEPP, 1968-1994 (78
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Chapter Three: SEEPP Begins, 1994 (110
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Chapter Four: Failing—by the book,
1995 (87
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Chapter Five: Version 1, The Miracle
of ’96 (131
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Chapter Six: The High Politics of 1996 (105
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Part Two: 1997—Three Versions in One Year
Chapter Seven: Winter Whirlwind, Version
2.0 (161
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Chapter Eight: English Spring, Version
2a-2.1 (169
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Chapter Nine: Back in the USA, Version
3 (134
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Chapter Ten: Slogging toward “Version
4.DONE” (164
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Part Three: Looking for Closure
Chapter Eleven: The Long Process of Approval, 1998 (226
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Chapter
Twelve: End Game, Version 5.2,
1999-2000 (87
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Epilogue: Lessons for Code Writers, Theorists,
and Researchers (122
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