Deficient Encapsulation

This smell arises when a node definition or ENC (External Node Classifier) declares a set of global variables to be picked up by the included classes in the definition.

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.