1. Promote public knowledge of software engineering.

2. 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.

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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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

2. 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.

3. Assign work only after taking into account appropriate contributions of education and experience tempered with a desire to further that education and experience.

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. 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.

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. 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.