I found this lesson out the hard way by finding that a new "status" had been added to our service and blew up some of our monitoring code. Since our monitoring

I found this lesson out the hard way by finding that a new "status" had been added to our service and blew up some of our monitoring code. Since our monitoring code was still correct for the cases that they were checking for, and had default clauses to note things that were not relevant, we were crashing purely because I had coded it to convert the incoming value into a java enum. Oops...