1. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.

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

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

4. Cooperate in efforts to address matters of grave public concern caused by software, its installation, maintenance, support or documentation.

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. Not knowingly use software that is obtained or retained either illegally or unethically.

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

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

4. 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.

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

6. 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.

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

8. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.

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. 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. 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.

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

1. 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.

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

10. 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.

1. 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.

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

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. 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. 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.

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

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. 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.

9. 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.

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