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

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

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

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

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. Refuse to participate, as members or advisors, in a private, governmental or professional body concerned with software related issues, in which they, their employers or their clients have undisclosed potential conflicts of interest.

7. 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.

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

3. Work to develop software and related documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that software.

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work, where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent with the law.

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

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

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

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