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.
  - Description files
    Add one or more Open API description files that define the web service.
  - Domains
    All domains found in the description files are added to the list of domains that can be scanned. In this step you can remove any that should not be scanned.
  - Login Management
    Configure the login procedure for the web service.
  - Sequences
    Review the list of requests created from the description files (and their parameters), and define "Sequences" of requests that must be sent in a specific order (objects that depend on other objects being created first).
  - Parameters
    Review all the parameters found in the requests. You can select which parameters are tracked and which are not tracked, and edit their values.
  - Complete
    When configuration is complete decide whether to start the scan now or later.
- 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
- 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

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.

This AppScan extension supports web service scans based on Open API (v2 and v3) description files (JSON or YAML). The steps below show the wizard workflow. Click the step name to see details for that step.

Note: This extension explores web services only. Any other links are ignored.

Note: Using API keys as HTTP query parameters is not supported.

Table 1. Web API configuration workflow
Step	Step Name	Description
1	Description Files	Add one or more Open API description files that define the web service.
2	Domains	Domains found in the description files are added to the list of domains that can be scanned. In this step you can remove any that should not be scanned.
3	Login Management	Define the login procedure for the web service.
4	Sequences	Review the requests created from the description files, and their parameters, and create "sequences" of requests that must be sent in a specific order. Important: Correctly constructed sequences of requests are essential to enabling AppScan to create objects that depend on the previous creation of another object.
5	Parameters	Review all the parameters found in the requests. You can select which parameters are tracked and which are not tracked, and edit their values.
6	Complete	When configuration is complete decide whether to start the scan now or later.

Additional task:

After completing the wizard configuration, a possible additional task (depending on your service) may be configuring Custom Headers in the main AppScan Configuration dialog box. For details, see Sequence variables.