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+6  Q: 

What do you call a bugfix which, you know very well, doesn't fix the root cause?

In medical terms, this is called a "symptomatic treatment". What is it called in the context of software development?

+3  A: 

"Patch" or "temporary fix".

Noon Silk  2010-02-04 09:28:33
I disagree with this. Your answer addresses the circumstances or temporal constraints of the fix, not its nature.
Carl Smotricz  2010-02-10 14:05:30
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Hack (or possibly dirty hack)

Jørn Schou-Rode  2010-02-04 09:31:42
I would say "Hack" is used when talking to other programmers and "Workaround" is what is used when explaining what you did to customers/management.
Earlz  2010-02-16 00:28:34
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"Workaround" is the term I would suggest.

Oddthinking  2010-02-10 13:57:20

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