Testing and Debugging ABAP

This section introduces some of the most important utilities within the ABAP Workbench to test and debug ABAP programs.

ABAP is a powerful programming language for developing sophisticated business applications, and for the very same reason it is important to be able to test those developments and avoid errors during runtime that might have not been initially foreseen, such as unexpected messages, incorrect return codes, performance errors, and others.

A single tool would not be enough to detect all types of situations that could happen during the development of a SAP application. The ABAP Debugger can be used to see the content of an internal table at runtime, but it is not the proper tool to detect performance problems. ...

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