1. Consider issues of physical disabilities, allocation of resources, economic disadvantage and other factors that can diminish access to the benefits of software.

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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