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Advanced API Verification from System Verification Associates assures your APIs have the usability, robustness, and performance to drive high traffic and top-line growth. • Proven on hundreds of complex APIs • Validates documentation correctness and usability • Evaluates scalability, security, and robustness • Verifies behavior with deep automated exploration • Unambiguous “Done” criteria

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Advanced API Verification

Advanced API Verification from System Verification Associates assures your APIs have the usability, robustness, and performance to drive high traffic and top-line growth. • Proven on hundreds of complex APIs • Validates documentation correctness and usability • Evaluates scalability, security, and robustness • Verifies behavior with deep automated exploration • Unambiguous “Done” criteria

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Your documentation is incomplete, wrong, misleading, or just plain


incomprehensible.
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2. Users complain that coding simple use cases is just too much hassle. G
3.
Users often rely on workaroundsthey FTP files instead of using your
APIs getFile.
G
4.
Your API is unbalanced or incompleteyou can turn something on, but
not off.
G
5.
Your APIs service crashes or responds with garbage when messages
are out of order or contain invalid data.
G
6. Version mismatches have unpredictable results. G
7.
No one is really sure what will happen with edge cases and they dont
want to know.
G
8. Your API allows your service to be hacked with common attack vectors. G
9.
Your service supports several protocols (REST, SOAP,) or formats
(JSON, XML,), but behavior and data isnt consistent among them.
G
10.
Your API doesnt provide useful feedbackgood and bad input all get
the same response.
G
11.
And probably worst of all, your service is so awesome that it draws
traffic spikes, but then your server chokes and dies.
G

Robust and Usable APIs Drive Traffic Growth
Copyright 2014 System Verification Associates, LLC http://sysverif.com Trademarks, service marks, and/or product names mentioned
herein are the property of their respective owners. API is an acronym for Application Programmer Interface, which refers to the interface of a
software component that other software components can use.

Does my API Suck?
How many of the top signs of suckage does your API have?
If your API has at least four of these signs, you need Advanced API Verification.

Advanced API Verification from System Verification Associates assures your APIs have the
usability, robustness, and performance to drive high traffic and top-line growth.
Proven on hundreds of complex APIs
Validates documentation correctness and usability
Evaluates scalability, security, and robustness
Verifies behavior with deep automated exploration
Unambiguous Done criteria

Advanced API Verification
Not too long ago, this question could amuse programmers for hours, but no one else cared.
No more. If your API sucks, youre losing money and market share, right now.
Youre at risk for social media mockery, big data breaches, and SLA busting outages.
Say what you do,
Do what you say




















































Sprint Approach/Deliverables
Discovery
Survey and catalog API documentation, open and closed issues,
social media profiles, codebase, and usage logs.
Analysis
Construct usage profile, scrutinize and markup documentation,
review function structure; prepare heat map for prioritization.
Design
Configure virtual lab, develop behavior/data models, establish
traffic capture/parsers, instantiate adapters.
Verification
Conduct model checking, generate and execute test suites. Collect
traffic and run logs, analyze coverage. Prepare final report and
conduct briefing.
Support
Provide ongoing independent verification and validation including
design review, monitoring, regression testing.
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Robust and Usable APIs Drive Traffic Growth
Advanced API Verificationa Proven Process
For three years, Bob Binder led a System
Verification Associates team at Microsoft
supporting validation and testing of 500
critical server-side APIs to comply with a
Federal court order.
We scrutinized documentation and used
advanced automated testing to reveal
omissions, inconsistencies, flaws, and bugs.
This worked so well that over 50,000
interoperability issues were found and
corrected. Hundreds of third parties could
finally use Microsofts APIs to build high
value applications.
Weve expanded and upgraded this
technology to verify any API on any
stack, including yours.
Say what you do,
Do what you say

Can you do my Stack?
Critical APIs are everywhere:
Service-oriented Architecture
Social media
Device to cloudretail, energy,
manufacturing, logistics
Mobile app to cloud
Entertainment media streaming
Financial markets and remote
payments
Advanced API Verification works for
any API, regardless of its protocols, data
formats, transport stacks, and
programming language bindings.

Advanced API Verification starts with an
expert review of your documentation and
actual usage. We develop a detailed and
realistic model of its data and behavior.
This work typically reveals many issues,
even for APIs released to production.
Next, we execute the models for in-depth
behavior exploration and advanced
automated testing.
Youll get test coverage of every testable
statement in your doc. Depending on your
goals, well add deep-dives into behavior,
security, robustness, and performance.
Every issue is logged in a tracking tool of
your choice. You also receive complete test
run logs with over-the-wire message
traces, a traceability matrix for your doc,
and a detailed test report.

How does it work?
How do I get started?
Contact Bob Binder:
email [email protected]
or call 312 404 5341.
Copyright 2014 System Verification Associates, LLC http://sysverif.com Trademarks, service marks, and/or product names mentioned
herein are the property of their respective owners. API is an acronym for Application Programmer Interface, which refers to the interface of a
software component that other software components can use.

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