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

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

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

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

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

7. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

2. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

1. 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.

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

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. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

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:Accept full responsibility for their own work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice (Full Version)PREAMBLEComputers have a central and growing role in commerce, industry, government, medicine, education, entertainment and society at large.

9. 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.

10. 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.

1. 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.

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

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

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

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

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