1. 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.

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

4. 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.

5. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent 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. Ensure an appropriate method is used for any project on which they work or propose to work.

8. 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.

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

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

1. Principle 7: COLLEAGUESSoftware engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

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

6. In all these judgments concern for the health, safety and welfare of the public is primary; that is, the "Public Interest" is central to this Code.

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

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

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

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

1. 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.

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

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

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. 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.

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

7. 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.

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

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

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