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

2. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.

3. Not knowingly use software that is obtained or retained either illegally or unethically.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. 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.

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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