1. 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.

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

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. 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. 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.

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

5. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’

6. 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.

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

5. Principle 2: CLIENT AND EMPLOYERSoftware engineers shall act in a manner that is in the best interests of their client and employer, consistent with the public interest.

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. 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.

8. 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.

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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 is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.

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

4. 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.

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. 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.

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

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. 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. 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.