shotgun debugging

noun

Definitions

  1. A poorly-directed form of debugging, making various experimental changes to the source…

    A poorly-directed form of debugging, making various experimental changes to the source code in the hope that one of them will eventually fix the problem.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for shotgun debugging. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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