7.03. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.

It is a vital fact that the software engineers and web developers shall give full credit to work of others and refrain from taking undue credit for work which they are not creditable. Although it is also unprofessional to take credit for other’s work, the code of conduct states that it is highly unethical more than unprofessional to undertake that kind of actions.

This code can be broken into several scenarios under how the work of others has to be credited. The possible scenarios are,

• Grant credit to each team member for their own work.

• Grant credit to information which we derived from websites, articles or books and etc.

• Grant credit to those who assist the team by providing information, knowledge as well as technical support.

First and foremost the team conceded to credit every member for their own work regarding the redesign and development of the ReputeU web site. The three members carried out different areas of development together. One member carried out the designing part, another the analyzing and data collecting part and next member most of the coding part. Apart from that all three members placed their contribution on finalizing the product. The credit to each and every function the members executed had been given consequently. No member tried to take credit on others work or abstained others from having credit to their own work.

We as university undergraduates accept that there are limitations to our knowledge. Therefore we took support from our superiors as well as our own colleagues in developing the functionalities required. We do not hesitate to give full credit to their support and the knowledge given.

Our team did not refer any books to obtain information mentioned in the site. But we went through several articles on few websites to clarify the accuracy of the information we possessed. We would not hesitate to grant necessary credit for those articles and websites for those information we got.