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

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

4. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

1. 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.

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

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

4. 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.

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

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

5. Principle 3: PRODUCTSoftware engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.

6. 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.

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. 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.

9. 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.

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

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

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

3. Report significant violations of this Code to appropriate authorities when it is clear that consultation with people involved in these significant violations is impossible, counter-productive or dangerous.

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

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

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

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

8. Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice (Full Version)PREAMBLEComputers have a central and growing role in commerce, industry, government, medicine, education, entertainment and society at large.

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

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

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