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

2. Be fair and avoid deception in all statements, particularly public ones, concerning software or related documents, methods and tools.

3. Refuse to participate, as members or advisors, in a private, governmental or professional body concerned with software related issues, in which they, their employers or their clients have undisclosed potential conflicts of interest.

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

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.

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. Express concerns to the people involved when significant violations of this Code are detected unless this is impossible, counter-productive, or dangerous.

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

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

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

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

1. Ethical tensions can best be addressed by thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.

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

3. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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.