Versioning of services
During the life cycle of a service, the service changes because consumers have change requests, laws and regulations change, and errors need to be fixed. First, you learn about versioning of services, and then the relationship with the different stages of a service is investigated. A common way of keeping track of these changes is using version control. Version control is the management of changes to documents, software, and artifacts. Changes are identified by a number or letter code; a version or revision number. Now when do you give your document, data model, or service a new version number? And what type of versioning scheme are you going to apply? Usually, you make a distinction between minor and major versions of a change. How does that work in a service? As you have read in Chapter 2, The Solution a service consists of an interface, a contract, and an implementation. All these aspects of a service can change. Let's look into the different types of change and...
