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. 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.

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

4. Improve their understanding of the software and related documents on which they work and of the environment in which they will be used.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

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

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

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

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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.