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

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

3. Extend software engineering knowledge by appropriate participation in professional organizations, meetings and publications.

4. Maintain professional objectivity with respect to any software or related documents they are asked to evaluate.

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

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. 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.

9. 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.

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

1. PRINCIPLESPrinciple 1: PUBLICSoftware engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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