What would you call the time you spend adopting a new piece of software?

Question

I'm working on a project for a university where I take a current piece of open source software and adapt it to their personal needs. This involves some time learning the layout and implementation of the source code I'm going to be modifying.

What would you call this? Bonus points for succinct phrases and/or words.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Software Analysis

Answer 2

Take-on. Acquisition. Knowledge transfer. Build knowledge base. Project startup. Learning/study phase.

Answer 3

Familiarization [with the existing product].

It's important that you don't skip this step - you don't want to be reinventing the wheel when you add your code in.

Answer 4

Implementation Research and Re-purposing Analysis

Answer 5

Open source transmogrification.