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

2. Identify, document, and report significant issues of social concern, of which they are aware, in software or related documents, to the employer or the client.

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

4. 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.

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

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

9. Not knowingly use software that is obtained or retained either illegally or unethically.

10. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Accept full responsibility for their own 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. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. Principle 8: SELFSoftware engineers shall participate in lifelong learning regarding the practice of their profession and shall promote an ethical approach to the practice of the profession.

9. 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.

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