1. 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.

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

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. 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.

5. 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.

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. 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.

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

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

10. Moderate the interests of the software engineer, the employer, the client and the users with the public good.

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

2. 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.

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

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

5. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents 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. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.

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

9. 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.

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

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

2. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.

3. 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.

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. 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.

6. 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.

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

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