Code Autopsy

Definitions

1. A detailed examination of code after a failure, incident, or abandoned project to understand what went wrong. In engineering slang, code autopsy suggests a mix of postmortem analysis and forensic curiosity.

   In plain English: A close examination of code after something has gone wrong.

   Example: "The team performed a code autopsy on the failed rollout and found three independent assumptions about request ordering that had never been tested together."

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