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

2. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

1. 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.

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

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

4. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

1. 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.

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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