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

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. 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.

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

6. Moderate the interests of the software engineer, the employer, the client and the users with the public good.

7. Be accurate in stating the characteristics of software on which they work, avoiding not only false claims but also claims that might reasonably be supposed to be speculative, vacuous, deceptive, misleading, or doubtful.

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

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

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

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

4. 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.

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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. The ultimate effect of the work should be to the public good.

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

9. 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.

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

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

2. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.

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

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. 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.

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

7. 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.

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

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10. Not unfairly intervene in the career of any colleague; however, concern for the employer, the client or public interest may compel software engineers, in good faith, to question the competence of a colleague.

1. 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.

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

1. 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.

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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.