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

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Disclose to appropriate persons or authorities any actual or potential danger to the user, the public, or the environment, that they reasonably believe to be associated with software or related documents.

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

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

6. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.

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

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

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.

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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