1. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.

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

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

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. 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.

6. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’

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

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

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

10. 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.

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. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.

3. 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.

4. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

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

2. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

3. 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.

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

10. 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.