[onetrickwolf]

Yeah I had this experience too. I figured at least there'd be static checking that would at least make sure we aren't going off spec but there isn't really. So you just have a spec that slowly becomes out of sync with the code until it's basically useless. Just seems like double work for almost no benefit.

[LelouBil]

It depends on the tools you use. You can use tester proxies that validate all requests and responses to the specs, or you can do server code gen (with interfaces/Subclasses for example in Java) so you are forced to adhere to the specs.