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

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

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

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. Approve software only if they have a well-founded belief that it is safe, meets specifications, passes appropriate tests, and does not diminish quality of life, diminish privacy or harm the environment.

10. Not knowingly use software that is obtained or retained either illegally or unethically.

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

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

4. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

4. 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.

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. 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.

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

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