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

2. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

7. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.

8. Approve software only if they have a well-founded belief that it is safe, meets specifications, passes appropriate tests, and does not diminish quality of life, diminish privacy or harm the environment.

9. 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.

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

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

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

8. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

2. 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.

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

4. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.

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

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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