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

2. Be fair and avoid deception in all statements, particularly public ones, concerning software or related documents, methods and tools.

3. 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.

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

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

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

7. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.

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

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

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1. Ensure that they are qualified for any project on which they work or propose to work by an appropriate combination of education and training, and experience.

2. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

8. 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.

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

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

2. In all these judgments concern for the health, safety and welfare of the public is primary; that is, the "Public Interest" is central to this Code.

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

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

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

6. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach of this Code.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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