1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

5. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.

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

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

8. To ensure, as much as possible, that their efforts will be used for good, software engineers must commit themselves to making software engineering a beneficial and respected profession.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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. 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.

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

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

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

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

6. 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.

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

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

9. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.

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

1. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.

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

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. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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.