The term for time spent understanding the code of a legacy application [closed]

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I'm having difficulty trying to remember the term describing the wasted time of trying to understand the code of a legacy application that has no documentation. I had thought the term was code rediscovery, but Google is telling me I'm misremembering.

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You are probably referring to Software/Code Archaeology which is the process of studying badly/not documented legacy projects/code.