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

Automatic scan save

About this task

You can set AppScan to save data to a .SCAN file automatically during scanning. When this option is selected, AppScan saves both periodically (at an interval you define) and at certain milestones during the scan.

Procedure

Click Tools > Options > Scan Options tab and select the Automatically Save during Scan check box. You can also adjust the interval between saves.

The running scan will be saved at the interval you selected. It will also be saved:

When you start or continue any part of the scan
When the Explore stage ends
When the Test stage ends

When a new scan starts and auto-save is enabled, a message appears, explaining that the scan needs to be saved because auto-save is turned on.

Click Yes to open a Save As dialog box to save the scans
Click No to disable the "Automatically save during scan" function for the current scan only
Click Disable to disable the "Automatically save during scan" function for this and future scans