1. 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.

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

7. Be fair and avoid deception in all statements, particularly public ones, concerning software or related documents, methods and tools.

8. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.

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

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.

1. Assign work only after taking into account appropriate contributions of education and experience tempered with a desire to further that education and experience.

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. 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.

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

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

4. 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.

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

7. Ethical tensions can best be addressed by thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.

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

9. 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.

10. 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.