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

2. 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.

3. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

3. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent with the public interest.

4. 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.

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. 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.

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

1. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.

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

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

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

5. Not unfairly intervene in the career of any colleague; however, concern for the employer, the client or public interest may compel software engineers, in good faith, to question the competence of a colleague.

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

7. 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.

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

10. 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.

1. 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.

2. 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.

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. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.

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

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 ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.

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

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

10. 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.

1. 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.

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

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

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

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. 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. 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.

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