shotgun debugging

2 definitions found

shotgun debugging - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  shotgun debugging
  
     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.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

shotgun debugging - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.