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

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

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

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

5. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’

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

7. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.

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. Cooperate in efforts to address matters of grave public concern caused by software, its installation, maintenance, support or documentation.

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

4. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to this Code.

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

9. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

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

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