Action-Based tab
Scan Configuration > Explore Options > Action-Based tab.
Setting | Details |
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General | |
Explore Timeout (minutes) | The default time limit for Action-Based Explore of a
site is 30 minutes, after this time the Explore
stage stops even if the site has not been fully
covered. If AppScan misses significant parts of the site in this time, you can increase this timeout. |
Minimum wait before invoking actions on page (milliseconds) | ADAC
attempts to identify that a page has loaded
completely before it starts exploring it. If you
add a minimum wait period here, ADAC
always uses this setting as the minimum
wait period (even if it detects that the page has
loaded), but will wait more than this time if it
detects that the page has not loaded. Tip: If when reviewing the Explore data, you
see that AppScan failed to execute all the
possible actions on a page, this can indicate that
its dynamic wait time was too short. You can also
see this during the scan if you enable the browser:
Note: Changing this setting might
affect Explore time, so you may also want to
consider increasing the Explore timeout
(above). |
Auto-detect dynamic-page loading | By default, ADAC
actively detects dynamic page content and treats
the page as such. In rare cases this may prevent
the page from loading correctly, and therefore
affect scan coverage. Tip: To identify
this issue:
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Filters | |
Skip actions on identical DOM elements | AppScan identifies actions that it has already executed
on a previous page based on various criteria. If
your site includes different actions that
might seem identical due to their DOM element, AppScan might incorrectly ignore them. If this happens,
clear this check box. Note: AppScan
does actually repeat identical actions a
few times, to make verify that they really are the
same, before deciding to ignore future
iterations. |
Use Machine Learning to analyze and skip redundant actions | AppScan uses Machine Learning to improve Explore stage
efficiency. AppScan can predict actions that are likely to lead to
already-discovered parts of the site, so it can
avoid them. If your site includes many pages whose only difference is their content, this feature can greatly increase site coverage within the defined Explore Timeout. The precise gain will vary depending on the site. |
Actions to skip | This is a list of actions for AppScan to ignore as they could adversely affect the
scan, or even the application. Actions to be
skipped are identified based on the
Id , name or
ng-model attributes of the DOM
element for the action. Any action whose DOM
element attributes' Id ,
name or ng-model
contain one of the words in the list, will be
filtered out of the scan.You can Add to, Edit, and Delete items in this list. |