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
- Menubar
  - File
    Used for creating, opening, and saving scans.
  - Edit
    Used for customizing scan results.
  - Scan
    Used to control the scan.
  - View
    Used to determine how the main window appears and what data is displayed.
  - Tools
    Provides various reporting and customization tools, including the HCL PowerTools.
  - AppScan Connect
    Used for connecting with AppScan on Cloud and AppScan Enterprise.
  - Help
    Used for accessing documentation, getting support help, and getting a new license.
- Browser toolbar
  The icons on the toolbar of the embedded AppScan® browser, used to display and save screenshots of application responses.
- Keyboard shortcuts
  AppScan offers these keyboard shortcuts.
- Accessibility controls
  Describes all keyboard shortcuts and controls.
- Temp files
  Describes where AppScan® saves its temporary files during normal operation, and how to change the location.
- Glossary
  This glossary explains terms and acronyms used in the AppScan® Standard user interface and documentation.
- Compliance
- CWE support
  CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) is an industry standard list that provides common names for publicly known software weaknesses. The following CWE IDs, and their parent or child IDs, are supported in the current version of AppScan Standard.
- Notices

Tools menu

Provides various reporting and customization tools, including the HCL PowerTools.


Command	Click to:
Create Report	Create a report of the current scan. See Reports
Manual Test	Create and send a test variant manually to a selected URL. See Manual tests
Generate All Issue Information	(This option is active only if there are scan results:) Generates/updates Issue Information in the Issue Information tab for all issues. See Issue Information tab. Tip: To generate Issue Information for a specific result only, right-click the result in the Result pane, and select Generate Issue Information.
Scan Scheduler	Set time and frequency for automatic run of a scan.
User-Defined Tests	Define new tests for scans. See User-Defined Tests
Extensions >
Web API Wizard (Open API)	Open the wizard to configure a web API scan based on one or more Open API (v2 and v3) description files (JSON or YAML). See Web Services Wizard
Extension Manager	Open Extension Manager to manage add-on applications. See Extension Manager
PowerTools >
Authentication Tester	Run Authentication Tester PowerTool to brute-force authentication tests.
Connection Test	Run Connection Test PowerTool to ping websites without using the ping protocol (which is blocked by many firewalls).
EncodeDecode	Run EncodeDecode PowerTool for string encoding/decoding between various formats.
ExpressionTest	Run ExpressionTest PowerTool to check regular expressions.
HTTP Request Editor	Run HTTP Request Editor PowerTool to edit and send HTTP requests, and view site responses.
External Tools...	Click to open a dialog box from which you can: Adjust the order of the PowerTools on the Tools menu Add additional external programs that can be opened from the Tools menu
Options	Customize AppScan operations. See Options dialog box