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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Approve software only if they have a well-founded belief that it is safe, meets specifications, passes appropriate tests, and does not diminish quality of life, diminish privacy or harm the environment.

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

2. 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.

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

4. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.

5. 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.

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

2. Ensure that clients, employers, and supervisors know of the software engineer's commitment to this Code of ethics, and the subsequent ramifications of such commitment.

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

2. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

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

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

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