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.
- Presets
  Presets give you the main configuration views needed for a particular type of scan.
- Views
- Scan using a Postman Collection
  If you have a Postman Collection of requests to your web API, you can import it and use it as the basis for a scan.
- Scan file structure
  Explains the basic structure of an AppScan Standard SCAN file.
- Scan templates
  A scan template is simply a scan configuration that has been saved so that you can use it again.
  - Predefined templates
    - The Parameter-Based Navigation template
      Explains the configuration of this predefined template.
  - User-Defined Scan Templates
    When you set up a scan, you can save the configuration as a template for use in future scans.
  - Loading scan templates
  - Editing Scan Templates
- Changing the configuration during a scan
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

The Parameter-Based Navigation template

Explains the configuration of this predefined template.

The Parameter-Based Navigation template includes the following settings that answer the challenges to scanning of this type of site.


Item	Location	Setting	Comments
Redundant Path Limit	Explore Options	500	Can be further increased if necessary
Depth Limit	Explore Options	10	Enables the handling of ASP.NET 2.0 postback links
Redundancy Tuning Defaults	Parameters and Cookies	1st and 3rd check boxes selected
Additional parameter	Parameters and Cookies	All Redundancy Tuning check boxes deselected ("Don't Track")	The parameter is in the form of a regular expression: `.(?i)(page\|redirect\|content\|target\|EVENTTARGET\|EVENTARGUMENT\|goto\|node\|action\|ctrl\|source.` You may need to edit this regexp if your site uses a navigational parameter that is not listed

The challenge of parameter-based navigation sites