While some areas, such as Ontario, Canada[11] and Quebec, Canada license software engineers, most places in the world have no laws regarding the profession of software engineers. Yet there are some guides from the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM, the two main professional organizations of software engineering. The IEEE's Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge - 2004 Version or SWEBOK defines the field and gives a coverage of the knowledge practicing software engineers should have. There is also an IEEE "Software Engineering Code of Ethics".[12] In addition, there is a Software and Systems Engineering Vocabulary (SEVOCAB),[13] published on-line by the IEEE Computer Society.
In the UK, the British Computer Society licenses software engineers and members of the society can also become Chartered Engineers (CEng), while in Canada, software engineers can hold the Professional Engineer (P.Eng)designation and/or the Information Systems Professional (I.S.P.) designation; however, there is no legal requirement to have these qualifications.
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