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

2. 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.

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

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

5. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

5. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.

6. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.

7. 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.

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

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

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

5. Principle 3: PRODUCTSoftware engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.

6. 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.

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

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

10. 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.

1. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.

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

3. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of 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. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.

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

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

9. 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.

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

1. 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.

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

3. Principle 5: MANAGEMENTSoftware engineering managers and leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical approach to the management of software development and maintenance .

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

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. 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.

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

8. 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.

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

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