Forensic software engineering

Description

Usually, forensic software engineering is performed with an interest in understanding the functionality - and sometimes intent - of software that has been abandoned by its creators, with an eye to correcting unexpected outcomes or determining whether to port, rebuild, replace, or retire a functional software instance.[1]

Is often required as a result of a corporate mergers or acquisitions, or during the migration/transition from an old datacenter to a newer one.

gollark: Anyway, the circle in the middle is kind of dull; perhaps think of other distinctive features of the Plutonian system.
gollark: Then why yellow/blue?
gollark: What's this a flag for again?
gollark: If your flag is not vector graphics you are probably doing it wrong.
gollark: It's a vector graphics editor.

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