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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

2. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

7. 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.

8. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Encourage colleagues to adhere to 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. Ensure that software engineers are informed of standards before being held to them.

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

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

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. Provide for due process in hearing charges of violation of an employer's policy or of this Code.

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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. 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. 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.

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

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

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