1. 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.

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

8. 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.

9. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

4. 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.

5. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

4. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.

5. Ensure that clients, employers, and supervisors know of the software engineer's commitment to this Code of ethics, and the subsequent ramifications of such commitment.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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 is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

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.