Welcome
Scanning
Learn how to start a scan, and what happens during the scan; how to manually manipulate the Explore stage, and how to export the results of a scan.
Pausing and continuing scans

Welcome
Welcome to the documentation for HCL AppScan Standard version 10.12.0
Getting started
This section provides a short tour of basic product features and procedures, including using the wizard to set up a scan.
Configuration
You configure a scan by choosing settings that best describe your application, and the kind of testing you want.
Intelligent Finding Analytics (IFA)
Intelligent Finding Analytics (IFA) uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to analyze data, discover patterns, and make predictions, ultimately transforming data into actionable insights. IFA goes beyond regular data analysis by using advanced methods to find deeper meanings and make smart decisions.
Manual exploring
Manual exploring enables you to explore specific parts of your application, filling in fields and forms as you go. This can be a way of ensuring that particular areas of the site are covered, and that AppScan has the information needed to complete forms correctly.
Scanning
Learn how to start a scan, and what happens during the scan; how to manually manipulate the Explore stage, and how to export the results of a scan.
- Starting scans
- Scan progress
- Pausing and continuing scans
  - Scans stopped due to connectivity issues
  - Scans stopped due to application issues
- Saving and loading scans
- Automatic scans
- Partial scans
- How to improve scan time
  Optimizing scan times is a continuous process of refinement. After you verify scan coverage and identify factors that may be increasing scan times, refer to the sections in this document for strategies that can help shorten scan duration and improve scan efficiency.
- Incremental scans
- Adding unexplored domains
  Add domains that AppScan discovers but does not explore to your scan scope so they can be crawled and tested. Review the list of unexplored domains and include the ones you want in the configuration to ensure they are covered in subsequent scans.
- Exporting scan results
Data
Data view is populated with information about the structure of the site during the Explore stage of the scan.
Issues
Issues view provides access to the results of a scan. You can view results at a high level or select specific tests or objects and access more details. These details include how to fix, requests/responses, and differences between the test variants that resulted in issues. You can manipulate the severity of issues, resend tests (with or without modifications), and create reports based on Issues.
Reports
Tools
This section explains how to use additional tools provided with HCL AppScan Standard.
Integrations
This section describes integrations of other applications with AppScan Standard:
Best practices
This section contains some best practices and use cases for advanced users.
FAQ & Troubleshooting
CLI
This section describes the syntax and options available using the Command line interface.
References
Menus and toolbar summaries, and glossary

Pausing and continuing scans

You can pause a scan at any time and resume it later. If a scan was paused due to connection problems, you can continue the scan after the problem has been fixed.

Note:

When you pause a scan it may continue for some time before actually stopping.

If you recover or resume an interrupted scan, AppScan resumes from the last saved scan state. If the original scan mode cannot be fully restored, AppScan may continue using a broader mode, such as a Full Scan.

To pause a scan, click the Pause button on the toolbar (or click Scan > Pause).
The Scan status appears, displaying the current paused status of the scan. For example, Explore paused.
To continue a scan that was paused, and select one of the options from the toolbar buttons or the Scan menu :
- Continue full scan: Resume full scan. (Continue with the Explore stage until there are no more unvisited URLs, and then continue automatically with the Test stage. If multiphase scanning is configured, complete multiple phases as necessary.)
- Continue Explore: Resume and complete the Explore stage but do not continue with the Test stage.
- Continue Test: Resume the Test stage, ignoring any unvisited URLs that had not been explored when the scan was paused.