1. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.

2. Software engineers are those who contribute by direct participation or by teaching, to the analysis, specification, design, development, certification, maintenance and testing of software systems.

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. Be fair and avoid deception in all statements, particularly public ones, concerning software or related documents, methods and tools.

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

8. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent with the public interest.

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

10. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

4. 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.

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

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

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

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

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