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

2. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

6. Identify, document, and report significant issues of social concern, of which they are aware, in software or related documents, to the employer or the client.

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. Refuse to participate, as members or advisors, in a private, governmental or professional body concerned with software related issues, in which they, their employers or their clients have undisclosed potential conflicts of interest.

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

10. 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.

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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.