easter egging

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easter egging - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Easter egging
  
     <jargon> (IBM, From the custom of the Easter Egg hunt
     observed in the US and many parts of Europe) The act of
     replacing unrelated components more or less at random in the
     hope that a malfunction will go away.  Hackers consider this
     the normal operating mode of field circus techs and do not
     love them for it.
  
     Compare Easter egg, shotgun debugging.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1998-03-18)
  

easter egging - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  Easter egging
   n.
  
     [IBM] The act of replacing unrelated components more or less at
  random
     in hopes that a malfunction will go away. Hackers consider this the
     normal operating mode of field circus techs and do not love them
  for
     it. See also the jokes under field circus. Compare shotgun debugging
     .