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

2. Identify, document, and report significant issues of social concern, of which they are aware, in software or related documents, to the employer or the client.

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

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. 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.

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Consider issues of physical disabilities, allocation of resources, economic disadvantage and other factors that can diminish access to the benefits of software.

1. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

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:Accept full responsibility for their own work.

2. 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.

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

5. 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.

6. Because of their roles in developing software systems, software engineers have significant opportunities to do good or cause harm, to enable others to do good or cause harm, or to influence others to do good or cause harm.

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

10. 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.