Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Easter egging
     
         ({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)