Great question! (Jean, founder and CEO of Akita here.) We elided some details to keep the blog post simple. Here is the longer answer. Akita catches dependencies across your system, so there are two ways you could set up Akita to catch this bug: 1. If the clients depending on the removed property are also explicitly tested by Akita, the regression test would flag the removed property as a change to take notice of. 2. If you install Akita to run in staging/production where it can pick up the dependencies on the service, the regression test will be able to detect that the removed property was used in a previous run and is now gone.