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

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

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

6. Maintain professional objectivity with respect to any software or related documents they are asked to evaluate.

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

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. Approve software only if they have a well-founded belief that it is safe, meets specifications, passes appropriate tests, and does not diminish quality of life, diminish privacy or harm the environment.

1. 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.

2. The ultimate effect of the work should be to the public good.

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. 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.

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

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

2. 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.

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. 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.

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

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. 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.

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

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

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