Insufficient documentation for application handoffs and legacy code recovery
6/10 MediumWhen inheriting applications (whether from contractors or former team members), there is often no documentation about dependencies, installation requirements, database contents, or what components exist. This makes it impossible to know if legacy code can even run without significant reverse engineering.
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Legacy Codebases: Working with aging, poorly-documented code can be a significant challenge. Understanding the logic, making changes without causing cascading failures, and adapting outdated practices to modern standards can all be time-consuming.
There's no documentation of what this does, how to install it, what's in the database, and for all I know, there may be components written by the original contractors which aren't in my big archive. I have no way of knowing whether this can run