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

2. Not knowingly use software that is obtained or retained either illegally or unethically.

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Improve their ability to create safe, reliable, and useful quality software at reasonable cost and within a reasonable time.

7. 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.

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

9. Ensure that there is a fair agreement concerning ownership of any software, processes, research, writing, or other intellectual property to which a software engineer has contributed.

10. 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.

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

1. 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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

9. 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.

10. Principle 2: CLIENT AND EMPLOYERSoftware engineers shall act in a manner that is in the best interests of their client and employer, consistent with the public interest.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. 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.

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

3. Not punish anyone for expressing ethical concerns about a project.

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

8. 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.

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

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