1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

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

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. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’

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

9. 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.

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

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

2. 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.

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.

9. 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.

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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