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

2. 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.

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

4. Identify, document, and report significant issues of social concern, of which they are aware, in software or related documents, to the employer or the client.

5. 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.

6. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’

7. Ensure that there is a fair agreement concerning ownership of any software, processes, research, writing, or other intellectual property to which a software engineer has contributed.

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

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 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. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.

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

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

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

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. Principle 7: COLLEAGUESSoftware engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

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. 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 is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.

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

8. 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.

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

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