1. Attract potential software engineers only by full and accurate description of the conditions of employment.

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

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

4. 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.

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. 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.

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

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

10. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.

1. 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.

2. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.

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

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

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

6. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent with the public interest.

7. 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.

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. 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.

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

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