Project Management Overview

Before you can run an analysis on a file, you need to create a project. Once projects are configured, which includes policy associations, tool configurations, analysis settings, and so on, you can add files for analysis. SRM analyzes the files in that project and creates findings that can be viewed on the Findings page.

When working with projects, it's important to understand the following terms:
  • Project. A collection of branches for a target software.
  • Branch. A unique line of development containing a collection of scans over time. A project contains at least one branch, and each branch may contain any number of findings.
  • Analysis. An individual scan, in which any number of tool results are taken into account in order to create or update findings.
  • Finding. Information about some part of an application, generally a flaw or vulnerability. Findings are generated from an analysis, but can also be entered manually.
  • Tool Result. Information about an application, as reported by a tool; tool results are correlated during analysis, becoming associated with findings.
  • Manual Result. Information about an application which is entered into the system manually.
  • Result. A generic term that includes both tool and manual results.

Project Management Tasks

For more information on Project Management tasks, see the following topics: