This topic explains how to configure and apply the Transmit tool that lets you transmit and receive over a socket connection.
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Understanding Transmit/Listen
The Transmit tool lets you transmit and receive over a socket connection. It is used for communicating directly with a specific port of a host. For example, you can use it to send a direct request to the server, then verify the response. If you are expecting something sent to a specific port on your machine, you can use this tool to listen at a particular port.
You can use this tool to perform a lower level of testing than the SOAP tool allows because it looks at the socket connection, which is handled by HTTP and sits one layer below the SOAP call. It is also useful if you have applications communicating through XML over a socket connection; it can be used to perform functional and regression testing of components that communicate using socket-based protocols.
Transmitting
This tool can be used as part of a test suite, or it can be applied to a file or set of files available in the file tree.
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To learn about special options available for this tool’s output, see Output Options.
Listening
To listen using the Transmit/Listen tool, right-click the Transmit Test Suite tree node and choose either Start Listening > Single Session or Start Listening > Sequential Sessions.
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For details on special options for this tool’s output, see Output Options.
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Transmit tool contains the following output options:
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