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

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

3. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.

4. Identify, document, and report significant issues of social concern, of which they are aware, in software or related documents, to the employer or the client.

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

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

9. Not knowingly use software that is obtained or retained either illegally or unethically.

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

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

2. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.

3. Take responsibility for detecting, correcting, and reporting errors in software and associated documents on which they work.

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

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. 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.

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

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

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

3. 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.

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. 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.

6. 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.

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. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.

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

2. Not influence others to undertake any action that involves a breach 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. The Code provides an ethical foundation to which individuals within teams and the team as a whole can appeal.

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

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

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

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

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

1. 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.

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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.