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NIST/ITL's Biometric Application Programming Interface (BioAPI) Conformance Test Suite (CTS)

NIST/ITL’s Biometric Application Programming Interface (BioAPI) Conformance Test Suite (CTS) beta implementation (also known as the BioAPI Test Environment (BTE)) was developed to help users verify the conformance of Biometric Service Providers (BSPs) to American National Standard InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standard (ANSI INCITS) 358-2002, the BioAPI Specification 1.1.

NIST/ITL’s BioAPI Conformance Test Suite Implementation Overview (143KB) provides information on its development history, its overall architecture and a description of its components.

The document refers to American National Standard InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (ANSI INCITS) 358-2002, the BioAPI specification and the BioAPI conformance testing methodology standard under development in INCITS Technical Committee M1 Biometrics. Background on NIST's Biometrics Standards program is included. It discusses the need for conformity assessment efforts in support of the BioAPI standard and other biometric interoperability and data interchange standards.

A brief reference to the organizations involved in the development and testing of NIST/ITL's BioAPI CTS implementation is also included.