1. 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.

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. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.

4. 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.

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. 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. 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.

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

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

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

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

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

1. 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.

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

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. 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. The Principles identify the ethically responsible relationships in which individuals, groups, and organizations participate and the primary obligations within these relationships.

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

7. 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.

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

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