Stovepipe System

This smell arises when subsystems are integrated in an ad hoc manner using multiple integration strategies and mechanisms.

Related smells: Stovepipe Enterprise

Reference

W. Brown, R. Malveau, H. McCormick, T. Mowbray, “AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis”. John Wiley & Sons, 1998.