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Shadowingthe is a coined term used to describe a practice in which a system, process, or researcher closely follows or duplicates the behavior of a reference source to observe, validate, or learn from it. The term is not widely standardized and appears in discussions across software testing, data analysis, and ethnographic fieldwork where practitioners map the behavior of a primary subject or system to a parallel model.
The term combines “shadowing” with the definite article “the” to emphasize following a specific source. It first
Applications of shadowingthe span both technical and qualitative domains. In software engineering, it describes running a
Limitations and considerations include privacy and ethical concerns in field shadowing, data synchronization and latency in