1. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’

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

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

4. 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.

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. Consider issues of physical disabilities, allocation of resources, economic disadvantage and other factors that can diminish access to the benefits of software.

7. 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.

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

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

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

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. Assist colleagues in being fully aware of current standard work practices including policies and procedures for protecting passwords, files and other confidential information, and security measures in general.

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

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

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

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