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. Maintain professional objectivity with respect to any software or related documents they are asked to evaluate.

3. 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.

4. Disclose to appropriate persons or authorities any actual or potential danger to the user, the public, or the environment, that they reasonably believe to be associated with software or related documents.

5. 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.

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

7. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.

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

9. Ensure that there is a fair agreement concerning ownership of any software, processes, research, writing, or other intellectual property to which a software engineer has contributed.

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent with the public interest.

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.

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

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.

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

10. 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.