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
  - User-Defined Test wizard
    The User-Defined Test wizard lets you create user-defined tests for AppScan to use when scanning, in addition to the tests it creates automatically.
  - Test Type
    In this step you define the kind of test you are creating. This affects which wizard steps are displayed.
  - Filter
    In this step you define the conditions which must be met to run this test. Only requests that match the conditions will be tested.
  - Modification
    In this step you define the changes that will be made to the original request, to create the test request.
  - Validation
    In this step you define the conditions that indicate the test succeeded.
  - Advisory
    In the Advisory and Advisory Continue steps, you input the text content of the Advisory that will appear in the scan results and reports. All fields are optional.
  - Completing the wizard
    When you have defined the new test, click Finish to add it to the list.
- 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

User-Defined Test wizard

The User-Defined Test wizard lets you create user-defined tests for AppScan to use when scanning, in addition to the tests it creates automatically.

In the welcome screen you define the basic test attributes.

Test Attributes


Name	The name you assign will appear in scan results and reports.
Description	The description appears only in the User-Defined Tests list within AppScan.
Created by	This attribute is used internally by AppScan to distinguish between used-defined tests of the same name and alert you to such conflicts.
Severity	Assign a High, Medium, Low or Informational severity level to the issue

When done, click Next to move to the next step.