Wolf Ticket

This smell occurs when conformance to standards are not enforced despite claiming openness and conformance to standards. This leads to proprietary interfaces that may vary significantly from the published standard.

Reference

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