1. 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.

2. Maintain professional objectivity with respect to any software or related documents they are asked to evaluate.

3. 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.

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

5. Disclose to appropriate persons or authorities any actual or potential danger to the user, the public, or the environment, that they reasonably believe to be associated with software or related documents.

6. Approve software only if they have a well-founded belief that it is safe, meets specifications, passes appropriate tests, and does not diminish quality of life, diminish privacy or harm the environment.

7. Not knowingly use software that is obtained or retained either illegally or unethically.

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

4. 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.

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

6. Assign work only after taking into account appropriate contributions of education and experience tempered with a desire to further that education and experience.

7. 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.

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

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

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

6. 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.

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

8. 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.

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

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