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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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, 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. 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.

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

1. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.

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. 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.

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

5. 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.

6. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.

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

8. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.

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

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

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

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. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

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

9. 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.

10. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Strive for high quality, acceptable cost and a reasonable schedule, ensuring significant tradeoffs are clear to and accepted by the employer and the client, and are available for consideration by the user and the public.

1. 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.

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

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. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

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