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

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

3. Extend software engineering knowledge by appropriate participation in professional organizations, meetings and publications.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Cooperate in efforts to address matters of grave public concern caused by software, its installation, maintenance, support or documentation.

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

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. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’

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. 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.

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

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. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

1. 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.

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

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

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

6. 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.

7. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow 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. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

9. 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.

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.