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

2. Extend software engineering knowledge by appropriate participation in professional organizations, meetings and publications.

3. 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.

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. Refuse to participate, as members or advisors, in a private, governmental or professional body concerned with software related issues, in which they, their employers or their clients have undisclosed potential conflicts of interest.

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. 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.

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

9. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a 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. The ultimate effect of the work should be to the public good.

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

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

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. 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.

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

10. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach 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. 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 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. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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