1. Moderate the interests of the software engineer, the employer, the client and the users with the public good.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Consider issues of physical disabilities, allocation of resources, economic disadvantage and other factors that can diminish access to the benefits of software.

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

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

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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 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.

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

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. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

1. Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice (Full Version)PREAMBLEComputers have a central and growing role in commerce, industry, government, medicine, education, entertainment and society at large.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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