1. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.

2. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’

3. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.

4. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Strive for high quality, acceptable cost and a reasonable schedule, ensuring significant tradeoffs are clear to and accepted by the employer and the client, and are available for consideration by the user and the public.

5. Software engineers are those who contribute by direct participation or by teaching, to the analysis, specification, design, development, certification, maintenance and testing of software systems.

6. To ensure, as much as possible, that their efforts will be used for good, software engineers must commit themselves to making software engineering a beneficial and respected profession.

7. Extend software engineering knowledge by appropriate participation in professional organizations, meetings and publications.

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

9. Be fair and avoid deception in all statements, particularly public ones, concerning software or related documents, methods and tools.

10. Be accurate in stating the characteristics of software on which they work, avoiding not only false claims but also claims that might reasonably be supposed to be speculative, vacuous, deceptive, misleading, or doubtful.

1. Assist colleagues in being fully aware of current standard work practices including policies and procedures for protecting passwords, files and other confidential information, and security measures in general.

2. Ensure that they are qualified for any project on which they work or propose to work by an appropriate combination of education and training, and experience.

3. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’

4. The ultimate effect of the work should be to the public good.

5. Be accurate in stating the characteristics of software on which they work, avoiding not only false claims but also claims that might reasonably be supposed to be speculative, vacuous, deceptive, misleading, or doubtful.

6. Ensure realistic quantitative estimates of cost, scheduling, personnel, quality and outcomes on any project on which they work or propose to work, and provide an uncertainty assessment of these estimates.

7. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.

8. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.

9. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.

10. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.

1. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Provide service in their areas of competence, being honest and forthright about any limitations of their experience and education.

2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.

3. Principle 8: SELFSoftware engineers shall participate in lifelong learning regarding the practice of their profession and shall promote an ethical approach to the practice of the profession.

4. Software engineers are those who contribute by direct participation or by teaching, to the analysis, specification, design, development, certification, maintenance and testing of software systems.

5. However, even in this generality, the Code provides support for software engineers and managers of software engineers who need to take positive action in a specific case by documenting the ethical stance of the profession.

6. Principle 2: CLIENT AND EMPLOYERSoftware engineers shall act in a manner that is in the best interests of their client and employer, consistent with the public interest.

7. Principle 7: COLLEAGUESSoftware engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.

8. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.

9. Ensure that software engineers know the employer's policies and procedures for protecting passwords, files and information that is confidential to the employer or confidential to others.

10. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.

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

2. However, even in this generality, the Code provides support for software engineers and managers of software engineers who need to take positive action in a specific case by documenting the ethical stance of the profession.

3. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.

4. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.

5. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.

6. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.

7. Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice (Full Version)PREAMBLEComputers have a central and growing role in commerce, industry, government, medicine, education, entertainment and society at large.

8. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.

9. As this Code expresses the consensus of the profession on ethical issues, it is a means to educate both the public and aspiring professionals about the ethical obligations of all software engineers.

10. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.

1. Promote no interest adverse to their employer or client, unless a higher ethical concern is being compromised; in that case, inform the employer or another appropriate authority of the ethical concern.

2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.

3. However, even in this generality, the Code provides support for software engineers and managers of software engineers who need to take positive action in a specific case by documenting the ethical stance of the profession.

4. Ethical tensions can best be addressed by thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.

5. As this Code expresses the consensus of the profession on ethical issues, it is a means to educate both the public and aspiring professionals about the ethical obligations of all software engineers.

6. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.

7. Principle 8: SELFSoftware engineers shall participate in lifelong learning regarding the practice of their profession and shall promote an ethical approach to the practice of the profession.

8. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.

9. The Code is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.

10. These situations require the software engineer to use ethical judgment to act in a manner which is most consistent with the spirit of the Code of Ethics and Professional Practice, given the circumstances.