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

2. 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.

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

4. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.

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

6. Moderate the interests of the software engineer, the employer, the client and the users with the public good.

7. 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.

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. 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.

10. 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.

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

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

4. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent with the public interest.

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. 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.

8. 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.

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

10. 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.

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

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

3. 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.

4. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently 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. 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. 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.

8. 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.

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

10. 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.

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. 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.

7. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.

8. 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.

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

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

1. 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.

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

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. 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. 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.