1. 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.

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

3. Not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with 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. Support, as members of a profession, other software engineers striving to follow this Code.

6. 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.

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. 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. Be fair and avoid deception in all statements, particularly public ones, concerning software or related documents, methods and tools.

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

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

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

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

7. Assist colleagues in being fully aware of current standard work practices including policies and procedures for protecting passwords, files and other confidential information, and security measures in general.

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

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

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

1. 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.

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

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

4. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Provide service in their areas of competence, being honest and forthright about any limitations of their experience and education.

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

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. 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.

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

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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