1. 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.

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

7. Moderate the interests of the software engineer, the employer, the client and the users with the public good.

8. Approve software only if they have a well-founded belief that it is safe, meets specifications, passes appropriate tests, and does not diminish quality of life, diminish privacy or harm the environment.

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

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

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

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. 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.

4. The ultimate effect of the work should be to the public good.

5. 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.

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

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

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

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. 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.

9. Principle 6: PROFESSIONSoftware engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest.

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

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

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

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

4. The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function.

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

10. 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.