1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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. 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.

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

3. Strive to fully understand the specifications for software 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. Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer.

6. Ensure adequate documentation, including significant problems discovered and solutions adopted, for any project on which they work.

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

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

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

5. Principle 3: PRODUCTSoftware engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible.

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

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. 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.