1. In particular, those managing or leading software engineers shall, as appropriate:Ensure good management for any project on which they work, including effective procedures for promotion of quality and reduction of risk.

2. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.

3. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.

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

5. 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.

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. Maintain professional objectivity with respect to any software or related documents they are asked to evaluate.

8. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.

9. The Code contains eight Principles related to the behavior of and decisions made by professional software engineers, including practitioners, educators, managers, supervisors and policy makers, as well as trainees and students of the profession.

10. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.

1. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.

2. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.

3. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.

4. 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.

5. Work to follow professional standards, when available, that are most appropriate for the task at hand, departing from these only when ethically or technically justified.

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. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.

8. 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.

9. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent with the public interest.

10. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.

1. s humanity, in special care owed to people affected by the work of software engineers, and the unique elements of the practice of software engineering.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. These Principles should influence software engineers to consider broadly who is affected by their work; to examine if they and their colleagues are treating other human beings with due respect; to consider how the public, if reasonably well informed, would view their decisions; to analyze how the least empowered will be affected by their decisions; and to consider whether their acts would be judged worthy of the ideal professional working as a software engineer.

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

6. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of software engineers.

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

8. In particular, those managing or leading software engineers shall, as appropriate:Ensure good management for any project on which they work, including effective procedures for promotion of quality and reduction of risk.

9. 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.

10. 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.

1. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.

2. Report significant violations of this Code to appropriate authorities when it is clear that consultation with people involved in these significant violations is impossible, counter-productive or dangerous.

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

4. Avoid associations with businesses and organizations which are in conflict with this code.

5. 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.

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

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

8. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.

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

1. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .

2. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.

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

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

6. Work to follow professional standards, when available, that are most appropriate for the task at hand, departing from these only when ethically or technically justified.

7. 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.

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

9. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.

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