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

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

10. Ensure that there is a fair agreement concerning ownership of any software, processes, research, writing, or other intellectual property to which a software engineer has contributed.

1. 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.

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

3. 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.

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 ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with this Code.

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

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

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

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

2. 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.

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

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

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. 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. 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. 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.

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