一句话：通过72名从业者调查揭示软件开发中伦理认知与实操能力间的差距。
本文关注计算机科学中日益重要的伦理问题，如隐私与公平，但业界从业者对伦理的认知程度及其在实践中如何优先处理仍缺乏理解。作者开展在线问卷调查，收集72名软件行业从业者的意见，考察他们在软件开发中感知、操作化伦理的信心与自觉程度。结果显示存在“重要性—能力”错配：从业者普遍承认日常工程决策会显著影响用户，但识别和缓解伦理风险的信心相对不足且差异较大。研究据此指出，应将开发者友好的伦理机制嵌入日常工作产物，以支持实践中的伦理决策。
Recently, interest in ethics within computer science has grown, bringing issues such as privacy and fairness to the forefront. Yet, how strongly practitioners are aware of these concerns and how they prioritize them in practice remains insufficiently understood. This paper reports an empirical study investigating how practitioners perceive and are confident in operationalizing ethics in software development, and evaluating how conscious they are to adopt it. We conducted an online survey with 72 industry software professionals. Our findings point to a relevance-capability mismatch: practitioners generally recognize that everyday engineering decisions can significantly influence users, but their confidence in identifying and mitigating ethical risks is comparatively less robust and more variable. We highlight opportunities for embedding ethics developer-friendly mechanisms into everyday work products.
@inproceedings{RebeloSSGV26,
title = {Understanding the industry perception of ethics in the software development lifecycle},
author = {Luciana Rebelo and Érica Ferreira de Souza and Gláucia Braga e Silva and Otávio S. Gomes and Nandamudi L. Vijaykumar},
booktitle = {FSE},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.1145/3803437.3805550}
}