1. 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.

2. Identify, document, and report significant issues of social concern, of which they are aware, in software or related documents, to the employer or the client.

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

4. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.

5. Not knowingly use software that is obtained or retained either illegally or unethically.

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

10. 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.