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Software rot

Software rot (bit rot, code rot, software erosion, software decay, or software entropy) is the degradation, deterioration, or loss of the use or performance of software over time.

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Refactoring

Software entropy

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Software rot

Nodes53
Edges52
Triples21
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.037736
Components1

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Software rot

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related to AI program example · 6
Software rot → AI, For, LISP, Many, PLANNER, SHRDLU
related to Refactoring · 5
Software rot → Care, It, Refactoring, Some, This
related to Forked online forum example · 3
Software rot → From, Suppose, This
related to Rarely updated code · 3
Software rot → If, In, Normal
has cause · 1
Software rot → Several
related to Classification · 1
Software rot → Software

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software code may rot changes time bugs program system entropy original environment forum used use refactoring however user websites without

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Wikipediainstance ofthe software that powers wikis0.80text
then never applies any updatesinstance ofthe software that powers wikis0.80text
Software rothas causeSeveral0.60section
Software rotrelated to AI program exampleMany0.60section
Software rotrelated to AI program exampleAI0.60section
Software rotrelated to AI program exampleFor0.60section
Software rotrelated to AI program exampleSHRDLU0.60section
Software rotrelated to AI program exampleLISP0.60section
Software rotrelated to AI program examplePLANNER0.60section
Software rotrelated to ClassificationSoftware0.60section
Software rotrelated to Forked online forum exampleSuppose0.60section
Software rotrelated to Forked online forum exampleThis0.60section

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