1. 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.

2. Ensure that there is a fair agreement concerning ownership of any software, processes, research, writing, or other intellectual property to which a software engineer has contributed.

3. Cooperate in efforts to address matters of grave public concern caused by software, its installation, maintenance, support or documentation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

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. 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.

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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