1. 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.

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

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

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

6. Not unfairly intervene in the career of any colleague; however, concern for the employer, the client or public interest may compel software engineers, in good faith, to question the competence of a colleague.

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

9. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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