1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

1. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

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. 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. 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.

10. Principle 2: CLIENT AND EMPLOYERSoftware engineers shall act in a manner that is in the best interests of their client and employer, consistent with the public interest.

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

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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