1. The dynamic and demanding context of software engineering requires a code that is adaptable and relevant to new situations as they occur.

2. 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.

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

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

6. 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.

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

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. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.

4. 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.

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. 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.

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

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

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

1. 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.

2. In all these judgments concern for the health, safety and welfare of the public is primary; that is, the "Public Interest" is central to this Code.

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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.