Presenter: Tushar Sharma
Date: 25 January 2017

The wide adoption of configuration management and the increasing size and complexity of the associated code, prompt for assessing, maintaining, and improving the configuration code's quality. This talk introduces configuration smells, their types with various examples, tools to detect them, and suggestions to refactor them.

The wide adoption of configuration management and the increasing size and complexity of the associated code, prompt for assessing, maintaining, and improving the configuration code's quality. We can leverage traditional software engineering knowledge and best practices to develop and maintain high quality configuration code. This talk brings the smell metaphor to configuration domain. This talk introduces configuration smells, their types with various examples, tools to detect them, and suggestions to refactor them.