"software archaeology" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} software archaeology (uncountable)
  1. (computing) The study of poorly documented or undocumented legacy software implementations, as part of maintaining those systems. Wikipedia link: software archaeology Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Computing
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