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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Treat all forms of software maintenance with the same professionalism as new development.

7. 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.

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. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.

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

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

8. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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. 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.

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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