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 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.

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

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

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

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

10. Identify, document, and report significant issues of social concern, of which they are aware, in software or related documents, to the employer or the client.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Obey all laws governing their work, unless, in exceptional circumstances, such compliance is inconsistent with the public interest.

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

3. 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.

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

5. Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice (Full Version)PREAMBLEComputers have a central and growing role in commerce, industry, government, medicine, education, entertainment and society at large.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Ethical tensions can best be addressed by thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.

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

9. 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.

10. 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.