1. 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.

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

3. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

2. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Temper all technical judgments by the need to support and maintain human values.

3. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:Strive for high quality, acceptable cost and a reasonable schedule, ensuring significant tradeoffs are clear to and accepted by the employer and the client, and are available for consideration by the user and the public.

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. Principle 4: JUDGMENTSoftware engineers shall maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

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

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

7. 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.

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

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