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

2. 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.

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

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

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

6. Treat all forms of software maintenance with the same professionalism as new development.

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

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

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

4. Ensure that they are qualified for any project on which they work or propose to work by an appropriate combination of education and training, and experience.

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

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. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

1. The Code prescribes these as obligations of anyone claiming to be or aspiring to be a software engineer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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