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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’

9. 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.

10. 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.

1. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.

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

3. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project 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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

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. 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.

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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.