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.

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