1. 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.

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.

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

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

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

1. 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.

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

3. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.

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

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

7. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

10. 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.