1. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.

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

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

4. 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.

5. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.

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. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

5. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.

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

7. 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.

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

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

10. 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.

1. In particular, software engineers shall continually endeavor to:Further their knowledge of developments in the analysis, specification, design, development, maintenance and testing of software and related documents, together with the management of the development process.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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