Lexicon

Breaking Change

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Contracts Core

Record: lexicon:breaking-change

Canonical: Lexicon

A change that violates a component's contract, forcing consumers to update to keep working.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Breaking API Change and before External State Mutation.

Category

  • Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility

Negated by

  • Stable Interfaces
  • Backward Compatibility

Violates

  • Backward Compatibility

Linked from

  • Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility