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. 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.

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

4. Be accurate in stating the characteristics of software on which they work, avoiding not only false claims but also claims that might reasonably be supposed to be speculative, vacuous, deceptive, misleading, or doubtful.

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

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. 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.

8. 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.

9. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.

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

10. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.

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

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

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. Ethical tensions can best be addressed by thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.

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

7. 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.

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

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

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.