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

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. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

7. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.

8. 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.

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

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

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

3. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.

4. 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.

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

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

7. Assign work only after taking into account appropriate contributions of education and experience tempered with a desire to further that education and experience.

8. 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.

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

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

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

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. Not unfairly intervene in the career of any colleague; however, concern for the employer, the client or public interest may compel software engineers, in good faith, to question the competence of a colleague.

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

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

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

8. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Strive for high quality, acceptable cost and a reasonable schedule, ensuring significant tradeoffs are clear to and accepted by the employer and the client, and are available for consideration by the user and the public.

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. 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. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

7. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.

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

9. 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.

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