1. Extend software engineering knowledge by appropriate participation in professional organizations, meetings and publications.

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

3. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

8. 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.

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

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

9. 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.

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