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

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.

To pause a scan, click the Pause button on the toolbar (or click Scan > Pause).
The Notice Panel appears, displaying: Scan is incomplete.
To continue a scan that was paused, click the Scan button on the toolbar, and select one of the options:
- 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.)
- Explore Only: Resume and complete the Explore stage but do not continue with the Test stage.
- Test Only: Resume the Test stage, ignoring any unvisited URLs that had not been explored when the scan was paused.