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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

9. The Code helps to define those actions that are ethically improper to request of a software engineer or teams of 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. Improve their knowledge of this Code, its interpretation, and its application to their work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

1. 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.

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

4. 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.

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: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.

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

8. Principle 7: COLLEAGUESSoftware engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.

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

10. 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.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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