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

2. 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.

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

4. Consider issues of physical disabilities, allocation of resources, economic disadvantage and other factors that can diminish access to the benefits of software.

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

6. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.

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

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

9. Treat all forms of software maintenance with the same professionalism as new development.

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

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

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

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

7. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.

8. Credit fully the work of others and refrain from taking undue credit.

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

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. 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.

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

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. 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.

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

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

10. Principle 3: PRODUCTSoftware engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.

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

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 is not a simple ethical algorithm that generates ethical decisions.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Avoid associations with businesses and organizations which are in conflict with this code.

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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