Professional Issues Part 03

Professional issues we faced during the development of the Maha Mangala Sutha (මහා මංගල සුත්‍රය) mobile app for the Android platform.

3.14. Maintain the integrity of data, being sensitive to outdated or flawed 

occurrences.

As I discuss in 1.06 and 3.03 Maha Mangala Sutha in the Public Domain. Though it is in the public domain we cannot any changes in the Maha Managala Sutha. It was one of great discourse of the Buddha and buddisht people have great respect to Thrpitaka Poth Vahanse. (ත්‍රිපිටකයේ ඛුද්දක නිකායට අයත් සූත්ත නිපාතයෙහි එන මහා මංගල සුත්‍රය බෞද්ධ සැදැහැවතුන් අතර ඉතා ජනප්‍රියය) . Normally this kind of religious things considered as the sensitive information. We have face the huge preasure from the society if we do wrong with  religious materials. So, we keep the completeness and integrity of data which include in the mobile app. As it is a popular discourse we donot have to consider about the outdated problem. 

6.04. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.

When we were continuing this project during last two months, once I was hospitalize for a week because of Dengu fever. Because of that I missed the basic discussion for the Implementation the app. Once I was recovered I felt hard to understand what is going on the implementation and what the things in the codes. But, my other two group members give a huge support by explaining the code, what is happen in it and what are the things remain. It helped me to carry my work and to give fully support to the project. As it is said in 6.04 in code of Ethics support as member of  a profession a great ethic in software industry.

6.08. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.

As I mention in  previous posts we, Kalpa, Visal and me take the responsibility of the developing Maha mangala Sutha app. So, if anyone find a error in the content or app performance they can report us. Then we will definitely  correct them. We consider that the person who reports error to us a does a great help to us. Further more , after the development we gave this app to the usage of few our batch mates. Purpose of this relishing to check whether they can identify any errors.

7.08. In situations outside of their own areas of competence, call upon theopinions of other professionals who have competence in that area.

Our app is in 3 language. English, Sinhalese, and French. We felt our English knowledge is just enough for doing the work. But, in Sinhalese though it is our native language we have low knowledge in Palli  to Sinhalese languages domain. We get the help of our batch mate Shamika Disanayaka who did Sinhalese for the G.C.E A/L and we have sound knowledge in sinhala as well as Palli languages. In french our knowledge is like zero. So, we get the help of another batch mate, Dilruni Ganepola who have competence of several world languages. Because of her help we can handle the french language also. Our sincere thanks should go to every one who helped us lot. 

Those are main professional issues which I can derived form the Ethical Code of conduct relating developing our Maha Mangala Sutha app. 

Hope to give discuss further more professional life matters in future... :D

Until then Good bye... :D