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

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:Accept full responsibility for their own work.

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

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

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

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 is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.

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

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