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

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

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

4. Approve software only if they have a well-founded belief that it is safe, meets specifications, passes appropriate tests, and does not diminish quality of life, diminish privacy or harm the environment.

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

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. 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. 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.

9. 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.

10. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

9. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.

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

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

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