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

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

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

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

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

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

7. In particular, software engineers shall continually endeavor to:Further their knowledge of developments in the analysis, specification, design, development, maintenance and testing of software and related documents, together with the management of the development process.

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

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

9. Principle 3: PRODUCTSoftware engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.

10. 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.

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

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

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. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

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. 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.