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

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

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. 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. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.

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

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

7. 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.

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. 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.

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