Welcome
Welcome to the documentation for HCL AppScan Standard version 10.4.0
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.
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.
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
This section describes how to generate reports from the scan results.
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

Automatic scans

A full automatic scan consists of one or more cycles of an Explore stage followed by a Test stage.

Automatic multiphase scanning

Explore stage

When you begin a full automatic scan, the Explore stage starts first. During this stage AppScan does the following:

Crawls the application as a user would, from the starting URL you gave in the scan configuration (see Starting URL and domains), to every URL in the application that has not been excluded.
Note: Scan Configuration lets you filter the Explore stage (see Exclude paths and files). If you exclude specific paths from it, or set specific Explore limits, these filters are applied to the Explore stage.
Builds the Application Tree, a hierarchical model of the URLs in the application.
Analyzes the explored URLs and generates tests.

Test stage

During the Test stage, AppScan does the following:

Logs in to the application.
Performs preliminary tests on the URLs, which help interpret results.
Tests URLs by sending requests designed to reveal vulnerabilities.
Records the response to each request.
Provides test results.

During the Test stage the Security Issues view of the Result List shows the results of the scan.