CAST Report Generator on Documentation - V2

CAST Report Generator - Installation process

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Summary: this page describes how to install the standalone CAST Report Generator.

Where can I obtain the CAST Report Generator?

≥ 1.10.0

You can obtain the Report Generator from Extend. Search for “report generator” and choose the Report Generatoroption:

An exe setup installer file named com.castsoftware.aip.reportgenerator..exe will be downloaded and can be run by double clicking. Please proceed as described in Installation steps.

≤ 1.9.0

You can obtain the CAST Report Generator from the CAST Product Center - this requires a CAST login. A ZIP file will be downloaded - unpack this ZIP file to find the exe setup installer called ReportGeneratorSetup.exe and proceed as described in Installation steps.

CAST Report Generator - Templates and output options

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Summary: this page describes how to work with the templates provided with CAST Report Generator and custom templates that may be created for your own purposes.

Introduction

Report Generator is supplied with a set of pre-defined templates which can be used as-is or adapted to your own needs. These templates are located here by default:

%PROGRAMDATA%\CAST\ReportGenerator\<version>\Templates\Application\Compliance reports
%PROGRAMDATA%\CAST\ReportGenerator\<version>\Templates\Application\Component library
%PROGRAMDATA%\CAST\ReportGenerator\<version>\Templates\Application\Legacy reports
%PROGRAMDATA%\CAST\ReportGenerator\<version>\Templates\Application\Sizing reports
%PROGRAMDATA%\CAST\ReportGenerator\<version>\Templates\Portfolio
%PROGRAMDATA%\CAST\ReportGenerator\<version>\Templates\zh_Hans\Application\Compliance reports
%PROGRAMDATA%\CAST\ReportGenerator\<version>\Templates\zh_Hans\Application\Component library
%PROGRAMDATA%\CAST\ReportGenerator\<version>\Templates\zh_Hans\Application\Legacy reports
%PROGRAMDATA%\CAST\ReportGenerator\<version>\Templates\zh_Hans\Application\Sizing reports
%PROGRAMDATA%\CAST\ReportGenerator\<version>\Templates\zh_Hans\Portfolio

Templates are taken from "%PROGRAMDATA%\CAST\ReportGenerator\<version>\Templates\zh_Hans\..." when Chinese (Simplified, PRC) is selected in Settings > Language.

You can find a list of these templates in the Component documentation which is accessible from each Release Notes page.

CAST Report Generator - Sample Reports

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Click to download:

Report	Description
CWE-Top-25 Security Report for SecApp.pdf	Report generated using the 5- CWE Top-25 Security Report.docx template. Reports for OWASP Top-10, CISQ 86 (Reliability, Security, Performance Efficiency, Maintainability) also available.
MonthlyReport_V2016.pdf	Executive report on two applications, showing trending, new added violations, violation aging, TRI, PRI and lists of top findings.
Report_Portfolio_Level.jpg	Portfolio-level rule compliance report. Summary chart of large app portfolio trends. Also exists for Robustness, Security, and all health factors.
Application_Portfolio_Security.jpg	Application Portfolio Security Health Risk example Excel report. Can be served in XLS or PDF. This one is a cutout of a 600 line item report.

CAST Report Generator - CAST Report Generator for Dashboards

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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Summary: this page describes the CAST Report Generator for Dashboards release.

Introduction

CAST Report Generator is now provided as an cross-platform ZIP filealongside the traditional Microsoft Windows GUI “installable” release. In other words this release can run on both Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems and can be simply unzipped to the install location (no installer is provided). The tool has two main uses:

the primary goal of this tool is to provide reporting capabilities to the CAST RestAPI - this integration is first and foremost used by the CAST dashboards to generate Standard Compliance reports from within the dashboard interface (see Engineering Dashboard - Report Generation and**Security Dashboard - Report Generation**).
The tool can also be used in CLI mode to generate reports, if required.

Where can I obtain the CAST Report Generator for Dashboards?

≥ 1.10.0

You can obtain the Report Generator for Dashboards from CAST Extend: