1. 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.

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

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. 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.

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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