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Scanning source code and managing assessments
This section explains how to scan your source code and manage assessments.
Publishing assessments
AppScan® Source offers two publishing options. You can publish assessments to the AppScan Source Database, for the purpose of storing and sharing assessments. Or, if your AppScan Enterprise Server has been installed with the Enterprise Console option, you can publish assessments to it. The AppScan Enterprise Console offers a variety of tools for working with your assessments - such as reporting features, issue management, trend analysis, and dashboards.

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Introduction to HCL® AppScan® Source
HCL® AppScan® Source delivers maximum value to every user in your organization who plays a role in software security. Whether a security analyst, quality assurance professional, developer, or executive, the AppScan Source products deliver the functionality, flexibility, and power you need - right to your desktop.
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- Scanning source code and managing assessments
  This section explains how to scan your source code and manage assessments.
  - Scanning
    You can scan an Eclipse or Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software (RAD) workspace, project, or file. This includes scanning Java™ (including Android), JavaServer Pages (JSP), and IBM® MobileFirst Platform projects.
  - Managing My Assessments
    The My Assessments view contains a list of assessments (the currently-opened assessment, along with any assessments that you have saved). In this view, you can open, delete, save, rename, or compare assessments. When a scan completes or you open a saved assessment, the assessment appears in the My Assessments view. My Assessments displays a table of open or saved assessments, and identifies a published or modified assessment. Removing an assessment from this view (without saving or publishing it) permanently deletes that assessment.
  - Submitting AppScan® Source assessments to the Cloud for analysis
    If you have a subscription to HCL AppScan on Cloud at HCL Cloud Marketplace, you can submit AppScan® Source assessments for analysis there. Assessments from AppScan Source Versions 9.0 or higher are supported - and the number of scans that you can submit depends on your AppScan on Cloud subscription.
  - Publishing assessments
    AppScan® Source offers two publishing options. You can publish assessments to the AppScan Source Database, for the purpose of storing and sharing assessments. Or, if your AppScan Enterprise Server has been installed with the Enterprise Console option, you can publish assessments to it. The AppScan Enterprise Console offers a variety of tools for working with your assessments - such as reporting features, issue management, trend analysis, and dashboards.
    - Registering applications and projects for publishing to AppScan® Source
      Before an assessment can be published to the AppScan® Source Database, the applications or projects that were scanned in order to create it must be registered. By default, if you attempt to publish an assessment of unregistered applications or projects, you will be prompted to register the applications or projects at that time. AppScan Source for Analysis auto-registers for you if your General preference, Automatically register applications on initial publish, is Always register.
    - Publishing assessments to AppScan® Source
      You can publish assessments to the AppScan® Source Database for the purpose of storing and sharing assessments.
    - Publishing assessments to AppScan® Enterprise
      Depending on your installation, you can publish assessments to AppScan® Enterprise and/or the Enterprise Console for access in the Published Assessments view. AppScan Enterprise and the Enterprise Console offer a variety of tools for working with your assessments, such as reporting features, issue management, trend analysis, and dashboards.
  - Opening and saving assessments
    AppScan® Source scans source code for vulnerabilities and produces findings. Findings are the vulnerabilities identified during a scan, and the result of a scan is an assessment. You can open a saved assessment from AppScan Source for Development or AppScan Source for Analysis. After you scan, you can save the assessment to a file. Then you can open the assessment again at any time. Assessments are saved as filename.ozasmt.
  - Removing assessments from My Assessments
    When assessments are removed from the My Assessments view, they are not removed from your local file system. If an assessment is removed from the view, it can be added back with the Open Assessment action.
  - Defining variables
    When saving assessments or bundles, or publishing assessments, AppScan® Source for Analysis may suggest that you create a variable to replace absolute paths (without variables, AppScan Source for Analysis writes absolute paths to the assessment file to reference items such as source files). When you configure variables for absolute paths, you facilitate the sharing of assessments on multiple computers. It is recommended that you use variables when sharing assessments.
- Triage and analysis
  Grouping similar findings allows security analysts or IT auditors to segment and triage source code problems. This section explains how to triage AppScan® Source assessments and analyze results.
- AppScan® Source trace
  With AppScan® Source trace, you can verify input validation and encoding that meets your software security policies. You can look at the findings that produce input/output traces and mark methods as validation and encoding routines, sources or sinks, callbacks, or taint propagators.
- Findings reports and audit reports
  Security analysts and risk managers can access reports of select findings or a series of audit reports that measure compliance with software security best practices and regulatory requirements. This section explains how to create reports of aggregate finding data.
- Creating custom reports
  In the Report Editor, you create report templates used to generate custom reports.
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Publishing assessments

AppScan® Source offers two publishing options. You can publish assessments to the AppScan® Source Database, for the purpose of storing and sharing assessments. Or, if your AppScan® Enterprise Server has been installed with the Enterprise Console option, you can publish assessments to it. The AppScan® Enterprise Console offers a variety of tools for working with your assessments - such as reporting features, issue management, trend analysis, and dashboards.

Important: This topic applies only if you have upgraded to AppScan® Source version 10.0.2 or higher from a 10.0.1 or earlier version of the product. New installations of AppScan® Source version 10.0.2 publish to AppScan® Enterprise only.

To learn more about AppScan® Source publishing features, see Publishing assessments to AppScan Source and Publishing assessments to AppScan Enterprise.

Note: For some versions of AppScan® Source and AppScan® Enterprise, the version and release level of the two products must match in order to publish from AppScan® Source to the AppScan® Enterprise Console. See How to enable connections and publish assessments for different versions of AppScan Source and AppScan Enterprise to learn which versions of AppScan® Source and AppScan® Enterprise are compatible when publishing assessments.