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

2. 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.

3. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Strive for high quality, acceptable cost and a reasonable schedule, ensuring significant tradeoffs are clear to and accepted by the employer and the client, and are available for consideration by the user and the public.

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

9. Treat all forms of software maintenance with the same professionalism as new development.

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

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

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

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

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

6. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

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. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

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. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

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

7. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.

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

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

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

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

9. 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.

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