Comment by BoorishBears

I think that just proves how stupid of a process it is?

You're relying on your internal teams' relatively outlay to catch contract breaking. And sure in this case internal is Google, meaning there are some pretty widely used apps acting as filters... but relative to the millions of apps out there, they're not likely to catch all the regressions.

They must have automated testing, but at the point where it's just accepted that things will break and your own engineers regularly have to "convince" your OS team that they broke things, you know something is wrong.