Software rot (bit rot, code rot, software erosion, software decay, or software entropy) is the degradation, deterioration, or loss of the use or performance...
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Link rot (also called link death, link breaking, or reference rot) is the phenomenon of hyperlinks tending over time to cease to point to their originally...
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Legacy system (redirect from Legacy software)
Long-lived code is susceptible to software rot, where changes to the runtime environment, or surrounding software or hardware may require maintenance...
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Bit rot may refer to: Software rot, the deterioration of unmaintained software Data degradation, the decay of electromagnetic charge in a computer's storage...
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ransomware. Code bloat Software cruft Feature creep Lightweight software GNU C library Minimalism (computing) Shovelware Software rot Software suite Technical...
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Single-event upset Software defect indicator Software regression Software rot VUCA "Software bugs cost US economy dear". June 10, 2009. Archived from the...
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(SDLC)[citation needed]). Brittle system Software entropy Software rot Robustness (computer science) "Definition of software brittleness". PCMAG. Retrieved 2023-05-19...
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usability problems. Software regression Software rot Shereshevsky, M.; Crowell, J.; Cukic, B.; Gandikota, V.; Yan Liu (2003). "Software aging and multifractality...
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Bit rot, data degradation Software rot, a form of bit rot Disk rot, also called CD Rot or DVD rot, the physical decay of optical disks Link rot, hyperlinks...
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equipment Software brittleness – Description of how difficult software is to modify Software rot – Process of software deterioration Software entropy –...
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Installation (computer programs) (redirect from Installation of computer software)
configuration of software or hardware with a view to making it usable with the computer. A soft or digital copy of the piece of software (program) is needed...
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Package manager (redirect from Software package management)
A package manager or package management system is a collection of software tools that automates the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and...
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SOLID (category Software design)
principles in his 2000 paper Design Principles and Design Patterns about software rot.: 2–3 The SOLID acronym was coined around 2004 by Michael Feathers....
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Anti-pattern (redirect from Software antipatterns)
designs List of software development philosophies List of tools for static code analysis Software rot – Process of software deterioration Software Peter principle –...
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right side of the commits based on the results of this comparison. Software rot Software aging Wong, W. Eric; Horgan, J.R.; London, Saul; Agrawal, Hira (1997)...
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Code smell (redirect from Software smell)
computer programming List of tools for static code analysis Software rot – Process of software deterioration Tufano, Michele; Palomba, Fabio; Bavota, Gabriele;...
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memory is useful for storing software that is rarely changed during the life of the system, also known as firmware. Software applications, such as video...
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disk Storage virtualization Virtual memory Memory-mapped file Software entropy Software rot In-memory database In-memory processing Persistence (computer...
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disk Storage virtualization Virtual memory Memory-mapped file Software entropy Software rot In-memory database In-memory processing Persistence (computer...
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media are sometimes referred to as "software" despite the more common use of the word to describe computer software. With (traditional art) static media...
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2004). "Sperry Rand's First-Generation Computers, 1955–1960: Hardware and Software". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing: 23. There was a 1,070-word drum...
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in the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC), which was built by Raytheon. The software for the AGC was written by programmers at the Massachusetts Institute of...
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system performance, mainly because hard drives are far slower than RAM. Software can "partition" a portion of a computer's RAM, allowing it to act as a...
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disk Storage virtualization Virtual memory Memory-mapped file Software entropy Software rot In-memory database In-memory processing Persistence (computer...
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Lossless data compression Data degradation Data loss Model collapse Software rot I Am Sitting in a Room The Disintegration Loops Ship of Theseus "generation...
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disk Storage virtualization Virtual memory Memory-mapped file Software entropy Software rot In-memory database In-memory processing Persistence (computer...
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disk Storage virtualization Virtual memory Memory-mapped file Software entropy Software rot In-memory database In-memory processing Persistence (computer...
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disk Storage virtualization Virtual memory Memory-mapped file Software entropy Software rot In-memory database In-memory processing Persistence (computer...
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borrow RAM capacity for caching so long as it is not needed by running software. If needed, contents of the computer memory can be transferred to storage;...
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disk Storage virtualization Virtual memory Memory-mapped file Software entropy Software rot In-memory database In-memory processing Persistence (computer...
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