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

2. Treat all forms of software maintenance with the same professionalism as new development.

3. 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.

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

5. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’

6. 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.

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

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

9. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.

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

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

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

3. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they 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. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.

6. 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.

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

9. 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.

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

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. 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.

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. 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. 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. 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.

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. 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.