Lexicon

Provider Change Safety

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Contracts Core

Record: lexicon:provider-change-safety

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which a provider can change without breaking its consumers, verified by their contracts.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Multi-Client Integration and before Reliable Integration.

Category

  • Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility

Enabled by

  • Consumer-Driven Contracts

Linked from

  • Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility