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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.

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

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

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

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:Accept full responsibility for their own work.

9. 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.

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

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

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. Principle 3: PRODUCTSoftware engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

2. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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