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

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

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

4. Consider issues of physical disabilities, allocation of resources, economic disadvantage and other factors that can diminish access to the benefits of software.

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

2. Be accurate in stating the characteristics of software on which they work, avoiding not only false claims but also claims that might reasonably be supposed to be speculative, vacuous, deceptive, misleading, or doubtful.

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

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

5. Assign work only after taking into account appropriate contributions of education and experience tempered with a desire to further that education and experience.

6. 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.

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

8. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they 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. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

9. Avoid associations with businesses and organizations which are in conflict with this code.

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

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. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

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

10. 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.