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

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

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

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

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

7. Extend software engineering knowledge by appropriate participation in professional organizations, meetings and publications.

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

5. The ultimate effect of the work should be to the public good.

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

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

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

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

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

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