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

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

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

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:Help develop an organizational environment favorable to acting ethically.

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

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

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

1. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

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

2. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.

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

4. 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.

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

6. 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.

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. 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. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.

10. 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.

1. 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.

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

3. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

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. Ethical tensions can best be addressed by thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.

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