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

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

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

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

5. Ensure that there is a fair agreement concerning ownership of any software, processes, research, writing, or other intellectual property to which a software engineer has contributed.

6. 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.

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

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

9. 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.

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

1. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

10. 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.

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

2. 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.

3. In all these judgments concern for the health, safety and welfare of the public is primary; that is, the "Public Interest" is central to this Code.

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

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

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

8. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.

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

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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