shotgun debugging

(idea) by Jargon Thu Jul 19 2001 at 15:48:44
short card = S = shovelware

shotgun debugging n.

The software equivalent of Easter egging; the making of relatively undirected changes to software in the hope that a bug will be perturbed out of existence. This almost never works, and usually introduces more bugs.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

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