1. 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.

2. 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.

3. In particular, software engineers shall continually endeavor to:Further their knowledge of developments in the analysis, specification, design, development, maintenance and testing of software and related documents, together with the management of the development process.

4. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they 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. In accordance with that commitment, software engineers shall adhere to the following Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.

7. Ensure that there is a fair agreement concerning ownership of any software, processes, research, writing, or other intellectual property to which a software engineer has contributed.

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

10. Be fair and avoid deception in all statements, particularly public ones, concerning software or related documents, methods and tools.

1. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 continually endeavor to:Further their knowledge of developments in the analysis, specification, design, development, maintenance and testing of software and related documents, together with the management of the development process.

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

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

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

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

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

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. In all these judgments concern for the health, safety and welfare of the public is primary; that is, the "Public Interest" is central to this Code.

4. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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