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
- 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

General tab

Tools > Options > General tab


Option	Description
Interface
Theme	Select whether the AppScan interface uses a dark or light background.
Language	Select the user interface language here. After changing this setting you will need to close and reopen AppScan for the change to take effect.
Recording and viewing browser	Select the default browser that will be used so show the Starting URL, and to browse when exploring manually. Options include the embedded AppScan Chromium browser, as well as other "external" browsers that are installed on your machine.
AppScan documentation
Use online/offline version	Select which version of the Help documentation you want AppScan to open: Online or Offline. The online version is recommended because it may have additional updates since the version was released. Choose Offline only if you will be using AppScan without an Internet connection.
File and folder locations
Template and scan file folder	Shows the current location of the folder to which your scan and template files are saved. Click Choose to select a different location.
Log file folder	Shows the current location of the folder to which logs are saved. Click Choose to select a different location.
Noise classification file	Shows the location and name of your current Noise classification XML file. Your noise classifications are saved here and applied to all scans run on this machine. Learn more about noise. You can select a different file to import noise classifications from another machine.
Vulnerable component database
Import file	AppScan announces updates to the vulnerable components database through AppScan News. If you download the latest version from HCL FlexNet Operations Portal, you must import it here to update the vulnerable component database. Once the import is successful, you can run a scan to observe the updated results.
Clear history
Clear history	This action will clear: Starting URL suggestions based on past use Embedded browser history "Recent scan files" list "Recent templates" list