1. 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.

2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.

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. 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.

5. Disclose to appropriate persons or authorities any actual or potential danger to the user, the public, or the environment, that they reasonably believe to be associated with software or related documents.

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

7. Ensure that there is a fair agreement concerning ownership of any software, processes, research, writing, or other intellectual property to which a software engineer has contributed.

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

9. 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.

10. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.

1. 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.

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

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

5. The ultimate effect of the work should be to the public good.

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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. 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. 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.

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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.