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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. Not knowingly use software that is obtained or retained either illegally or unethically.

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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. 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.

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

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

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

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. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

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