1. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.

2. Because of their roles in developing software systems, software engineers have significant opportunities to do good or cause harm, to enable others to do good or cause harm, or to influence others to do good or cause harm.

3. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’

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

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

6. Disclose to appropriate persons or authorities any actual or potential danger to the user, the public, or the environment, that they reasonably believe to be associated with software or related documents.

7. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.

8. 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.

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

10. 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.

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

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

3. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.

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

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

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

7. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.

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

9. 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.

10. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.

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

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

3. Because of their roles in developing software systems, software engineers have significant opportunities to do good or cause harm, to enable others to do good or cause harm, or to influence others to do good or cause harm.

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

8. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Ensure that clients, employers, and supervisors know of the software engineer's commitment to this Code of ethics, and the subsequent ramifications of such commitment.

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

8. 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.

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

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.