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

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

5. Ensure that there is a fair agreement concerning ownership of any software, processes, research, writing, or other intellectual property to which a software engineer has contributed.

6. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’

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

8. 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.

9. Maintain professional objectivity with respect to any software or related documents they are asked to evaluate.

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

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

4. 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.

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

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. 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.

8. 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.

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. 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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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