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

2. 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.

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

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

9. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’

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

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

9. Assign work only after taking into account appropriate contributions of education and experience tempered with a desire to further that education and experience.

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

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

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

4. 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.

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. 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. 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.

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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.