Unstructured Module

Each module in a configuration repository must have a well-defined and consistent module structure. An ad-hoc structure of a repository suffers from unstructured module smell that impacts understandability and predictability of the repository.

Tools

The following set of tools detects this smell: Puppeteer(for Puppet)

Reference

T. Sharma, M. Fragkoulis, D. Spinellis, “Does Your Configuration Code Smell?”. MSR 2016, pp. 189–200.