1. Consider issues of physical disabilities, allocation of resources, economic disadvantage and other factors that can diminish access to the benefits of software.

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

10. Identify, document, and report significant issues of social concern, of which they are aware, in software or related documents, to the employer or the client.

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

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. 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.

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

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

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

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7. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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.