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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.
Using a browser
For web applications, you can usually use the build-in Chromium browser for manual exploring. Where necessary the built-in IE vbrowser, or an external browser can be used.
Recording with an external browser
You can set AppScan to act as a proxy server and then manually explore your application using a third part browsing utility. In this mode of operation, AppScan records the HTTP/HTTPS traffic going through it, analyzes it, and creates the appropriate tests.

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.
- Using a browser
  For web applications, you can usually use the build-in Chromium browser for manual exploring. Where necessary the built-in IE vbrowser, or an external browser can be used.
  - Recording with a browser
    Describes recording Manual Explore data with a browser.
  - Exporting Manual Explore data
    Standard procedures can be "recorded" in the form of a Manual Explore, and then imported to future scans.
  - Importing Manual Explore data
    If you have saved a standard procedures in the form of a Manual Explore, you can import it to another scan to test it again, even on a different server.
  - Recording with an external browser
    You can set AppScan to act as a proxy server and then manually explore your application using a third part browsing utility. In this mode of operation, AppScan records the HTTP/HTTPS traffic going through it, analyzes it, and creates the appropriate tests.
    - Configuring your browser to use AppScan as a proxy
      An example showing how to configure your browser to use AppScan as a proxy.
- Using an external client
  You can manually explore RESTful or other non-SOAP web services - or SOAP services that do not require security envelopes - using a mobile phone, simulator, or emulator. AppScan displays the domains and requests in its External Traffic Recorder, and create appropriate tests from the input.

Recording with an external browser

You can set AppScan to act as a proxy server and then manually explore your application using a third part browsing utility. In this mode of operation, AppScan records the HTTP/HTTPS traffic going through it, analyzes it, and creates the appropriate tests.

About this task

In the unlikely event of the built-inAppScan browsers producing error messages while your external browser does not, you may use this facility to browse manually using an external browser, with AppScan as proxy. (If this happens, contact the AppScan® support team so the issue can be resolved.)

Procedure

Make sure that AppScan is not configured to use Internet Explorer proxy settings. In Scan Configuration > Connection View, do one of the following:
- Select Don't use proxy
- Select Use custom proxy settings; type in proxy address, port, and authentication information.
Note: If you do not do this the setting is automatically changed to Don't use proxy when you start exploring.
Find the AppScan listening port. Open Tools > Options > Recording Proxy tab (see Recording Proxy tab).

The Proxy Port area shows the port that AppScan is using to listen to traffic going to the web application. It may be a port that AppScan assigned to itself (the port number you are looking for will be gray), or a port that you selected manually.
Configure your web browser to use AppScan as its proxy:

In your browser, find the section for configuring a proxy server. Change the hostname or address to the IP address (localhost is usually an acceptable entry) in use by the machine running AppScan, and change the port to the AppScan listening port.
Perform a Manual Explore of your application (see Using a browser for full details):
1. Click Scan > Manual Explore, to open the AppScan internal browser.
2. Without closing the internal browser, open your external browser.
3. Manually explore the application as necessary.
4. Close the external browser.
5. Close the AppScan internal browser.