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Tools
This section explains how to use additional tools provided with HCL AppScan Standard.
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.
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).

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

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).

Requests

The Left pane of the Requests tab shows you a list of all requests created from the definition files; for each one its Method and Path. Select any request to see:

Upper-right pane: A list of the parameters in the request, with their Name, Type, Location and Value. You can also click the Edit icon to see its Description, and edit its Value, Track the parameter, and Apply the Value change to all similar parameters.
Lower-right pane: The raw HTTP request, including headers etc., exactly as it will be sent. You can click the Send button to send the request and see the response in the lower part of the same pane.
Exclude a request from the scan by Right-click > Exclude Request. The request appears with a strikethrough. To re-include it right-click again use Right-click > Include request.

Sequences

Correctly constructed sequences, expressing dependencies between objects, are important tools in scanning a web service thoroughly. When a request to create a particular object depends on another object having been created previously, the right sequence of requests must be configured.

To configure a sequence:

In the Requests tab, click on the first request in the sequence to select it.
Click and hold down the Control key, and select the remaining requests in their correct order. Then release the Control key. All requests in the sequence now appear selected.
Enter a name for the sequence in the Name field, and then click Create Sequence.
Click on the Sequences tab to see:
- Left pane: All configured sequences. Each sequence can be enabled for the scan or disabled to save for another scan, by selecting or clearing the Enabled check box.
- Upper-right pane: The URLs recorded in the selected sequence. You can use the Up/Down arrows to change the order of the requests, and the Minus button to remove requests from the sequence.
- Lower-right pane: The list of variables found in the selected sequence. You can right-click a variable to set a dynamic value. For more details See Sequence variables.

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