Broken Hierarchy

The use of inheritance must be limited to the same module. The smell occurs when, the inheritance is used across namespaces where inheritance is not natural ('is-a' relationship is not followed).

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.