1. 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.

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

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

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

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 particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own work.

9. 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.

10. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.

1. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent with the public interest.

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. 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.

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

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. 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.

4. 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.

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

8. 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.

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

7. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.

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

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

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

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.