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

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

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

4. Moderate the interests of the software engineer, the employer, the client and the users with the public good.

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Refuse to participate, as members or advisors, in a private, governmental or professional body concerned with software related issues, in which they, their employers or their clients have undisclosed potential conflicts of interest.

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

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. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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