1. Identify, document, and report significant issues of social concern, of which they are aware, in software or related documents, to the employer or the client.

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

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. 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.

10. 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.

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. Ensure that they are qualified for any project on which they work or propose to work by an appropriate combination of education and training, and experience.

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

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

5. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. Avoid associations with businesses and organizations which are in conflict with this code.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

1. 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.

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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