OpenAPI conformance
Measure whether live APIs match their published schemas and expected behavior.
Platform / API Conformance
Demonstrate API compliance continuously.
Compare production and pre-production APIs against your own schemas, OpenAPI specifications, and open standards so compliance can be proven internally and externally.
OpenAPI checksAPI postureDrift detectionAudit trailsRemediation workflows
OpenAPIschema conformance checks
FAPIopen-standard gap analysis
24/7continuous drift monitoring
100%call-level audit history
Compliance from real traffic shape
Real API calls. Real workflows. Real results.
APIContext builds sequenced workflows that replicate user scenarios, then shows how dependencies, security requirements, reliability, and response details affect compliance.
Conformance workflow · login to payment authorizationevidence captured
GET /accounts
schema passed
POST /consents
auth passed
POST /payments
p99 watch
assert FAPI headers
passed
audit evidence
stored
remediation task
created
Verify API compliance
Compare live APIs against the contract they promised.
Run conformance checks against OpenAPI specifications in production or pre-production. Ongoing analysis alerts teams as soon as a deviation against spec is published.
Compare requests and responses to OpenAPI specs
Validate production and pre-production environments
Alert immediately when an endpoint drifts from contract
Security and performance posture
Show compliance across schema, security, and reliability.
Schemas capture important requirements, but regulators and internal teams also care about uptime, availability, response time, auth posture, and reliability reporting.
Consolidated security and performance reporting
Track uptime, availability, and response-time mandates
Demonstrate posture in one auditable tool
Guard against API drift
Compliance at launch is not enough.
Engineers keep iterating, and small changes accumulate. Continuous conformance checks catch drift, preserve audit trails, and route remediation tasks to the teams that can fix them.
Continuous drift detection across releases
Flag and mark individual compliance issues
Send remediation tasks into existing workflows
Drift timeline · 30 days
6 events · 2 open · 4 resolved
today · 14:32DRIFTPOST /v1/paymentsv2.41.0 · payments-team
Required header `Idempotency-Key` no longer enforced
yesterdayDRIFTGET /v1/accounts/{id}v2.40.4 · core-team
Field `created_at` changed format · ISO-8601 -> epoch
Apr 28 · 09:14RESOLVEDGET /v1/transactionsv2.40.0 · core-team
Pagination cursor now consistent with spec
Apr 21 · 16:50ATTENTIONPOST /v1/auth/tokenv2.39.2 · platform
TLS suite weakened · TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 added
Apr 14DRIFTGET /v1/accountsv2.39.0 · core-team
Response schema added unspecified field `legacy_id`
Apr 02RESOLVEDallv2.38.0 · platform
FAPI 1.0 part 2 baseline adopted across 142 endpoints
Key Features
Everything you need in production.
Security by design
Track auth, schema, and policy requirements as part of the same conformance posture.
Performance evidence
Report reliability metrics such as uptime, availability, latency, and response time alongside compliance.
Workflow validation
Sequence calls to reproduce real user scenarios and dependency chains.
Audit trails
Review the details of every API call and preserve evidence for internal or external stakeholders.
Remediation handoff
Send issues and tasks to existing systems and teams for resolution.
Conformance evidence flows into security, compliance, DevOps, and reporting workflows
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What is API conformance testing?
API conformance testing verifies that a live API's behavior — response schemas, status codes, headers, and error formats — matches its declared specification, such as an OpenAPI document. It is a complement to API contract testing, but more expansive: it tests not only the technical contract but also the business rules that need to be enforced by the API in context. An API can be available and returning 200 status while still failing conformance — returning incorrect field types, omitting required headers, or violating documented business logic.
How does APIContext detect conformance failures?
APIContext compares live API responses against an OpenAPI specification or custom schema on every synthetic check. When a response deviates — a field type changes, a required property is missing, or a security header is dropped — the platform flags the drift with a diff view showing exactly what changed. Checks also validate against regulatory security profiles including FAPI 2.0 for financial APIs.
What standards does APIContext support for conformance?
APIContext supports OpenAPI 3.x, custom JSON schemas, and financial-grade security standards including FAPI 1.0 Baseline, FAPI 1.0 Advanced, FAPI 2.0, and many more. This covers security and payload requirements applicable to open banking APIs under UK, EU, Australian, and US regulatory frameworks.
Can conformance testing run against pre-production environments?
Yes. APIContext runs conformance checks against production and staging endpoints simultaneously, making it possible to catch regressions before they are promoted to production. Teams can enforce a never-ship-a-breaking-change policy by gating deployments on conformance pass rates.
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