Backend Testing Skill

End-to-end backend verification with the IronBee Backend DevTools CLI. Drive requests, watch logs, and assert on database state — all in one session.

See the full CLI reference at ironbee-backend-devtools-cli. Domain-level docs: request, log, db, o11y.

When to Use

This skill activates when:

• User wants to test backend APIs over HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, gRPC, GraphQL, or WebSocket
• User needs to assert on log lines that a request produced (file, Docker, or Kubernetes logs)
• User needs to verify that a request changed exactly the right database rows
• User wants to replay a captured curl command or HAR entry
• User needs to seed test fixtures and roll them back automatically
• User wants to correlate a request chain with a single W3C trace id

Core principle: correlate by trace id

Pin a trace id once on the session and every request automatically carries it. Then read your server logs filtered by that trace id — that's the cleanest agent-driven verification loop.