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.
- Options dialog box
  This section describes options you can control, to customize AppScan, from the Options dialog box in Tools > Options.
- Web API Wizard extension
  This extension lets you scan using Open API description files. It is available from Tools > Extensions > Web Services Wizard (Open API), and the extension is enabled by default.
- Scan Scheduler
- User-Defined Tests
- PowerTools
  AppScan offers access to five utilities (PowerTools), each providing a specific feature to help you manage your application security or to help you use AppScan.
- Customizing the Tools menu
- Extensions
  - Extension Manager
    Extension Manager lets you add/remove, enable/disable extensions for use with AppScan.
  - Burp Traffic Importer
    This extension lets you import a collection of requests into AppScan as a BURP file. AppScan will use the requests to explore the site as if you had explored it manually yourself.
  - Import URLs
    This extension lets you import a list of URLs into AppScan as a text file. AppScan will explore these URLs as if you had explored them manually yourself.
  - PyScan
    Pyscan is an extension that enables you to control AppScan through Python.
- Logs
  Logs can help you troubleshooting.
- Searching Results
  You can filter the Result List in any of the views, for specific data.
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

Extensions

With AppScan® it is easy to write and integrate extensions. Extensions are add-ons that add functionality to AppScan®. They can be anything from a small email notification utility, to a full blown vulnerability exploit tool. Extensions enable users to customize AppScan® to their own needs. They are written using AppScan's SDK and extensions framework.

The SDK online help file AppScanSDK.chm can be found in the main AppScan® documentation folder.

AppScan® comes with some extensions built-in, and it is easy to integrate and manage additional extensions using the Extension Manager.