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

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

3. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’

4. 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.

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

6. 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.

7. Extend software engineering knowledge by appropriate participation in professional organizations, meetings and publications.

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

1. 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.

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

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

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 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.

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

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. 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.

7. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.

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

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

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

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 is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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.