1. 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.

2. Ensure that there is a fair agreement concerning ownership of any software, processes, research, writing, or other intellectual property to which a software engineer has contributed.

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

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

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. 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.

7. 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.

8. Ensure that there is a fair agreement concerning ownership of any software, processes, research, writing, or other intellectual property to which a software engineer has contributed.

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

2. Principle 3: PRODUCTSoftware engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

7. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Provide service in their areas of competence, being honest and forthright about any limitations of their experience and education.

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 are informed of standards before being held to them.

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

1. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. 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.

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