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

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

4. 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.

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

6. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software on which they 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. Refuse to participate, as members or advisors, in a private, governmental or professional body concerned with software related issues, in which they, their employers or their clients have undisclosed potential conflicts of interest.

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

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

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

2. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. 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.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Principle 7: COLLEAGUESSoftware engineers shall be fair to and supportive of their colleagues.

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 continually endeavor to:Further their knowledge of developments in the analysis, specification, design, development, maintenance and testing of software and related documents, together with the management of the development process.

6. 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.

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

3. 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.

4. Ensure that clients, employers, and supervisors know of the software engineer's commitment to this Code of ethics, and the subsequent ramifications of such commitment.

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

10. 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.