1. 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.

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

3. 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.

4. Consider issues of physical disabilities, allocation of resources, economic disadvantage and other factors that can diminish access to the benefits of software.

5. 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.

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

1. 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.

2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.

3. 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.

4. Principle 3: PRODUCTSoftware engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

8. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.

9. 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.

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

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. 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.

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