Software rot | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-14

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00:00:50 1 Causes
00:01:14 1.1 Environment change
00:01:48 1.2 Onceability
00:02:41 1.3 Unused code
00:03:10 1.4 Rarely updated code
00:03:58 2 Classification
00:04:13 2.1 Dormant rot
00:04:36 2.2 Active rot
00:05:53 3 Example
00:07:55 4 Refactoring
00:08:34 5 See also



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Software rot, also known as code rot, bit rot, software erosion, software decay or software entropy is either a slow deterioration of software performance over time or its diminishing responsiveness that will eventually lead to software becoming faulty, unusable, or otherwise called "legacy" and in need of upgrade. This is not a physical phenomenon: the software does not actually decay, but rather suffers from a lack of being responsive and updated with respect to the changing environment in which it resides.
The Jargon File, a compendium of hacker lore, defines "bit rot" as a jocular explanation for the degradation of a software program over time even if "nothing has changed"; the idea being this is almost as if the bits that make up the program were subject to radioactive decay.