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. 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. These obligations are founded in the software engineer’

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

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

6. 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.

7. Disclose to appropriate persons or authorities any actual or potential danger to the user, the public, or the environment, that they reasonably believe to be associated with software or related documents.

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

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

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

3. It is not intended that the individual parts of the Code be used in isolation to justify errors of omission or commission.

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

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. Avoid associations with businesses and organizations which are in conflict with this code.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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.