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

2. Extend software engineering knowledge by appropriate participation in professional organizations, meetings and publications.

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. Approve software only if they have a well-founded belief that it is safe, meets specifications, passes appropriate tests, and does not diminish quality of life, diminish privacy or harm the environment.

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

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

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

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

3. The ultimate effect of the work should be to the public good.

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

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

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. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

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

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

4. 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.

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. 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. 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.

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

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

10. 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.