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If you're building a platform, yes, you should at least be testing your point releases against a handful of the most popular applications that run on your platf
by nuclear_eclipse 16y ago
If you're building a platform, yes, you should at least be testing your point releases against a handful of the most popular applications that run on your platform, because things like this, even if caused by bad decisions in those 3rd party applications, look bad against the platform as a whole.
If this was a big feature release like JDK7, that's one thing, but a bugfix release is completely different.
Edit: Everybody would be grabbing for their pitchforks if Facebook all of a sudden updated their backend and broke FarmVille. It's the same concept.
- sbov 16y agoJust to add onto this: a company I worked for was a somewhat heavy user of a 3rd party api, and they integrated our key use cases into their test scenarios in order to avoid breakage. Depending upon what percentage of Java developers use eclipse, seeing if it still works seems fairly reasonable.