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

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

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

8. 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.

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. 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.

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

10. 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.

1. 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.

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 is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.

4. 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.

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

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

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

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. 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.