1. Cooperate in efforts to address matters of grave public concern caused by software, its installation, maintenance, support or documentation.

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. 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.

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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.