1. 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.

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

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

5. 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.

6. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

3. Improve their knowledge of relevant standards and the law governing the software and related documents on which they work.

4. 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.

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

6. 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.

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

8. The ultimate effect of the work should be to the public good.

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

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

1. 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.

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

5. 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.

6. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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