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

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. 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.

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

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

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. 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. 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.

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. 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.