1. 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.

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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