1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

5. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Ensure that they are qualified for any project on which they work or propose to work by an appropriate combination of education and training, and experience.

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

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

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

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

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

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 know the employer's policies and procedures for protecting passwords, files and information that is confidential to the employer or confidential to others.

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

3. 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.

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

5. Report significant violations of this Code to appropriate authorities when it is clear that consultation with people involved in these significant violations is impossible, counter-productive or dangerous.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

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