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

3. 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.

4. Cooperate in efforts to address matters of grave public concern caused by software, its installation, maintenance, support or documentation.

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

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

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. 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.

9. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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. In all these judgments concern for the health, safety and welfare of the public is primary; that is, the "Public Interest" is central to this Code.

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

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

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

8. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.

9. 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.

10. Report significant violations of this Code to appropriate authorities when it is clear that consultation with people involved in these significant violations is impossible, counter-productive or dangerous.

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

6. 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.

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

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