1. 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.

2. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

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

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

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. 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.

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

3. 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.

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

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

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.