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

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

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

4. Treat all forms of software maintenance with the same professionalism as new development.

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

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. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Principle 2: CLIENT AND EMPLOYERSoftware engineers shall act in a manner that is in the best interests of their client and employer, consistent with the public interest.

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

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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. 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.

10. 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.