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Scanning source code and managing assessments
This section explains how to scan your source code and manage assessments.
Removing assessments from My Assessments
When assessments are removed from the My Assessments view, they are not removed from your local file system. If an assessment is removed from the view, it can be added back with the Open Assessment action.

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Learn how to develop by using the product.
- Scanning source code and managing assessments
  This section explains how to scan your source code and manage assessments.
  - Scanning
    You can scan an Eclipse or Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software (RAD) workspace, project, or file. This includes scanning Java™ (including Android), JavaServer Pages (JSP), and IBM® MobileFirst Platform projects.
  - Managing My Assessments
    The My Assessments view contains a list of assessments (the currently-opened assessment, along with any assessments that you have saved). In this view, you can open, delete, save, rename, or compare assessments. When a scan completes or you open a saved assessment, the assessment appears in the My Assessments view. My Assessments displays a table of open or saved assessments, and identifies a published or modified assessment. Removing an assessment from this view (without saving or publishing it) permanently deletes that assessment.
  - Submitting AppScan® Source assessments to the Cloud for analysis
    If you have a subscription to HCL AppScan on Cloud at HCL Cloud Marketplace, you can submit AppScan® Source assessments for analysis there. Assessments from AppScan Source Versions 9.0 or higher are supported - and the number of scans that you can submit depends on your AppScan on Cloud subscription.
  - Publishing assessments
    AppScan® Source offers two publishing options. You can publish assessments to the AppScan Source Database, for the purpose of storing and sharing assessments. Or, if your AppScan Enterprise Server has been installed with the Enterprise Console option, you can publish assessments to it. The AppScan Enterprise Console offers a variety of tools for working with your assessments - such as reporting features, issue management, trend analysis, and dashboards.
  - Opening and saving assessments
    AppScan® Source scans source code for vulnerabilities and produces findings. Findings are the vulnerabilities identified during a scan, and the result of a scan is an assessment. You can open a saved assessment from AppScan Source for Development or AppScan Source for Analysis. After you scan, you can save the assessment to a file. Then you can open the assessment again at any time. Assessments are saved as filename.ozasmt.
  - Removing assessments from My Assessments
    When assessments are removed from the My Assessments view, they are not removed from your local file system. If an assessment is removed from the view, it can be added back with the Open Assessment action.
  - Defining variables
    When saving assessments or bundles, or publishing assessments, AppScan® Source for Analysis may suggest that you create a variable to replace absolute paths (without variables, AppScan Source for Analysis writes absolute paths to the assessment file to reference items such as source files). When you configure variables for absolute paths, you facilitate the sharing of assessments on multiple computers. It is recommended that you use variables when sharing assessments.
- Triage and analysis
  Grouping similar findings allows security analysts or IT auditors to segment and triage source code problems. This section explains how to triage AppScan® Source assessments and analyze results.
- AppScan® Source trace
  With AppScan® Source trace, you can verify input validation and encoding that meets your software security policies. You can look at the findings that produce input/output traces and mark methods as validation and encoding routines, sources or sinks, callbacks, or taint propagators.
- AppScan® Source for Analysis and defect tracking
  AppScan® Source for Analysis integrates with defect tracking systemsIBM® Rational Team Concert™ to deliver confirmed software vulnerabilities directly to the developer desktop. Defect submission to a defect tracking system contains a textual description of the bug and a file that contains only the findings submitted with the defect.
- Findings reports and audit reports
  Security analysts and risk managers can access reports of select findings or a series of audit reports that measure compliance with software security best practices and regulatory requirements. This section explains how to create reports of aggregate finding data.
- Creating custom reports
  In the Report Editor, you create report templates used to generate custom reports.

Removing assessments from My Assessments

When assessments are removed from the My Assessments view, they are not removed from your local file system. If an assessment is removed from the view, it can be added back with the Open Assessment action.

About this task

Restriction: When you scan multiple applications or projects, a parent node containing assessments for each scanned item is created in the My Assessments view. The individual child assessments cannot be managed in this case (for example, the child assessments cannot be removed or published individually). When multiple applications or projects are scanned at the same time, you can only manage the assessments as a group (the parent node).

Procedure

In the My Assessments view, select the assessment that you want to remove. Multiple assessments can also be selected using the keyboard Ctrl or Shiftcommand or shift keys.
Select the Remove from My Assessments button in the view's toolbar - or right-click the selection and choose Remove from My Assessments from the menu.