1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own 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. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.

5. 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.

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

1. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.

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. 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.

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

5. 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.

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.

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

8. 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.

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. 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.

1. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be 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. Recognize that violations of this Code are inconsistent with being a professional software engineer.

4. 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.

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.