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

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

8. Cooperate in efforts to address matters of grave public concern caused by software, its installation, maintenance, support or documentation.

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

10. Review the work of others in an objective, candid, and properly-documented way.

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

3. Principle 2: CLIENT AND EMPLOYERSoftware engineers shall act in a manner that is in the best interests of their client and employer, consistent with the public interest.

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3. Work to follow professional standards, when available, that are most appropriate for the task at hand, departing from these only when ethically or technically justified.

4. 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.

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

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

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