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Olga Dolinskaja
September 19, 2012 3 minute read

ABAP Test Cockpit – an Introduction to SAP’s new ABAP Quality Assurance Tool
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Bugs in your custom ABAP code can be quite expensive when they impact critical business processes, which is why quality assurance of custom ABAP code is receiving more and more
attention in business. SAP also develops a great deal of ABAP code, and for us as well, highest quality is our primary goal. To reach this goal, SAP invested in the ABAP Test Cockpit (ATC), which
has become SAP’s main internal quality assurance tool for ABAP.

We asked ourselves, why customers shouldn’t bene t from the ABAP Test Cockpit as well.  We started a pilot project with two customers to nd out if the ABAP Test Cockpit can help customers
assure the quality of custom code. The results were so positive that SAP decided to adapt and extend the ABAP Test Cockpit for custom code. We collaborated intensively with the pilot
customers during the development cycle of the ABAP Test Cockpit. As a result now we have a brand new ABAP check tool developed with the input of customers for customers.

The ATC is already available with EhP2 for SAP NetWeaver 7.0 support package stack 12 (SAP Basis 7.02, SAP Kernel 7.20) and EhP3 for SAP NetWeaver 7.0 support package stack 5 (SAP Basis
7.31, SAP Kernel 7.20).

ABAP Test Cockpit – What is it, what are the bene ts?
The ABAP Test Cockpit is a new ABAP check toolset which allows you to run static checks and ABAP Unit tests for your ABAP programs. In order to ensure a smooth migration and comparable
check results throughout your company, the ABAP Test Cockpit is compatible with SAP’s Code Inspector. This means you can reuse your custom Code Inspector checks and variants in the
ABAP Test Cockpit.

So is it only a Code Inspector ++? We think it is more.

ABAP Test Cockpit (ATC) - Overview

Developers will like the ABAP Test Cockpit because it is directly integrated in the ABAP Develoment Tools for Eclipse (ABAP Test Cockpit for Developers in Eclipse) and ABAP workbench and has
superior usability.  Working with ATC ndings is very easy and e cient using the new ABAP Test Cockpit lter, navigation, and re-check functionality. Team leads and quality engineers will like
the ABAP Test Cockpit because it introduces new quality assurance processes like quality gates, a robust exemption approval process, and periodic regression tests in a quality system.

You can install and run ATC locally in the systems of your development landscape or install ATC centrally as a Hub and check your systems using Remote Code Analysis in ATC. ATC’s support for
solid quality processes will minimize the errors in your productive system! In addition, the ATC o ers tools to analyze the ABAP Test Cockpit results on the team or project level.  ABAP Test
Cockpit is integrated into the SAP Solution Manager (CCLM, CHARM) to allow cross system quality reporting.

Here are the main bene ts of ABAP Test Cockpit:

Standard code quality with functional, performance, security aspects (ABAP Security Checks with the Code Vulnerability Analyzer (CVA))

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The ABAP Test Cockpit is fully integrated in the ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse and in ABAP development workbench with high usability for developers and quality experts. Findings are
reported in one prioritized work list.

       ATC in ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse:

       ATC in SE80:

Easy navigation to the editors to analyze the nding and data ow including the detailed documentation and assistance for the ndings
Con guration of checks takes place via Code Inspector variants
The ABAP Test Cockpit o ers superior and easy to use built-in reporting capabilities with lters and aggregated levels.
The ABAP Test Cockpit is not only a check tool but supports essential quality assurance techniques like quality gates or regression testing in a consolidation system.

The ABAP Test Cockpit o ers a robust process for managing exemptions (false / positive ndings) based on the four-eyes principle.

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Uniform quality standard for the whole system landscape: Remote Code Analysis in ATC – One central check system for multiple systems on various releases
SAP S/4HANA custom code migration

For more information about the supported quality management processes, please take a look at the corresponding Best Practices document:

ABAP Test Cockpit: Best Practices for Quality Management Processes

For more details about the involved roles (developers, quality extperts, admins) please take a look at the corresponding Getting Started guides:

Getting Started with the ABAP Test Cockpit for QMs and Administrators
Getting Started with the ABAP Test Cockpit for Developers

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Former Member

September 19, 2012 at 12:01 pm

Hi Christopher,

the test cockpit looks great. I’m already working a lot with unit tests and the code inspector – so I’m looking forward to the new test cockpit.

Regards,

Dirk

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Vinod Kumar

September 19, 2012 at 1:13 pm

Hi Christopher,

ATC looks great and interesting.  May be I have to wait for sometime to use this (right now my development system is not updated with Support pack level 12)

Thanks for sharing the information.

Regards, Vinod

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Sunil Deshpande

October 30, 2012 at 5:42 am

Great! It is interesting…

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Jay Raj

September 19, 2012 at 10:52 pm

That’s interesting.

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Former Member

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September 23, 2012 at 7:09 pm

Time saving and Productive. Can’t wait to use it.

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Maria João Paulo Rocha

September 26, 2012 at 4:17 pm

Hi,

We would like to use ATC!

How? Is it available for customers?

We are on Netweaver 7.0 without enhancements; SAP APPL/EA HR and EA_APPL on EHP3.

Thanks.

Regards,

Maria João Rocha

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Former Member

September 27, 2012 at 1:47 pm

Hi Maria João,

Thanks for your interest in ATC!

ATC is available for customers starting with NetWeaver 700 EhP 2 (SP 12).

(This correlates to EhP5 for SAP ERP 6.0)

So, unfortunately ATC is not in your system yet.

Perhaps you have a system with a higher release in your landscape and can experience the ATC there?

Best regards

Boris

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Former Member

October 22, 2012 at 7:22 am

Hi Christopher,

Good one.I am in SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 is it work.

Regards,

Madhu.

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Former Member

October 25, 2012 at 8:00 am

Useful Document
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Varkey George

November 17, 2012 at 11:33 am

Looking forward to the ATC & total cost saving on account of work reduction on ABAP Coding

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Nigel James

November 19, 2012 at 5:01 am

Will SAP deliver all enhancement packs with tests that can be run through the ATC so that redundancy tests of existing productive systems can be done with new functionality delivered in those
enhancement packs?

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Former Member

November 19, 2012 at 8:34 am

Hi Nigel

The ABAP Test Cockpit is based on Code Inspector and runs the Code Inspector checks of a speci ed global Code Inspector check variant. This implies that custom Code Inspector checks and
new Code Inspector checks delivered by SAP can be used in the ATC starting with NW 7.02 (EhP2 for SAP NetWeaver 7.0 support package stack 12).

In NW releases < 7.02  the Code Inspector tooling must be used to run Code Inspector checks.

But the tooling (ATC or Code Inspector) is decoupled from the actual Code Inspector checks.

So the target NW release of new SAP Code Inspector checks can be set individually (independent of the tooling part).

Best regards

Boris

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Former Member

December 10, 2012 at 11:59 am

When can we test it in Minisap?

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Former Member

December 10, 2012 at 7:49 pm

We are currently working on an updated AS ABAP trial which would be su cient to test ATC. But we can’t communicate any release dates yet…

Best regards,

Christopher

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Jeroen Verbrugge

December 13, 2012 at 3:51 pm

Hi,

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I just installed the Precon gured trial version for Linux SAP NetWeaver Gateway 2.0 SP5

This system comes with 7.02 SP12. I tried running transaction ATC, all there.

Christopher Kaestner: can you comment if this gateway trial system contains everything needed to run ATC?

Thanks,

Jeroen

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Former Member

December 14, 2012 at 7:30 am

Hi Jeroen,

thanks for the hint. Yes, the SAP Netweaver Gateway 2.0 SP5 trial should work ne for ATC as it’s based on AS ABAP 7.02 SP12. There are already some notes available you might apply:
1742580, 1743194 (critical), 1750230 (critical), 1762948, 1775289.

Best regards,

Christopher

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Josef Vogler

January 10, 2013 at 8:12 am

Hi Christopher,

if the description and the technical information given by the check is not detailed enough for me to really get it in my mind in future, how can I nd the implementation of the check by the
component and the check name?

For example, for the BC_CCMPLX checks I don’t get how it determines which line is an english comment line and what is the algorithm behind it.

Regards,

Josef

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Former Member

April 20, 2013 at 10:11 pm

Hello Josef,

the BC_CCMPLX check is an SAP internal prototype that has not been released to customers. I can only assume that some debugger magic or some accident has made this prototype visible.

The ATC customer version reuses the Code Inspector tests. In case one of the Code Inspector tests has de ciencies in the documentation you may consider to open a ticket on component BC-
DWB-TOO-ATF (ABAP test frameworks).

Regards

Klaus

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Gaurav Tripathi

May 21, 2013 at 3:55 pm

Good One.

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Former Member

October 7, 2013 at 1:48 pm

Hi all.

Usefull document. Very good.

Best regards.

Erlon Lourenço

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Ashok Babu Kumili

December 19, 2013 at 1:10 pm

Hello Christopher Kaestner,

Thank you so much for this blog. This is very cool and helpful aid for testing aspects. I speci cally love that it is solution oriented.  This is so organised and well described.

Regards

Ashok.

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Former Member

April 3, 2014 at 6:14 am

I have been using it from last 2 years and this is really a good and helpful tool from quality perspective.

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Former Member

October 2, 2014 at 12:44 pm

Hi Christopher

Is it possible to use ATC exemptions in a landscape where there is no QA system acting like the Master System?

Let me explain better:

In my current implementation project, so far we have only a DEV system with 2 clients: 100 for development and customizing, and 110 for testing.

I would like to use ATC in this way: developers would run ATC checks on their developments at DEV 100, and they could ask for exemptions when necessary. The purpose is to maintain the DEV
system “clean” while we don’t have a QA system.

Is it possible?

Thank you, Best Regards

Daniel

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Former Member

October 2, 2014 at 1:26 pm

Please refer to this discussion

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Hemendra Sabharwal

November 7, 2014 at 3:25 am

Many thanks, ATC looks easy to use and interesting.

Warm Regards

Hemendra

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Former Member

November 7, 2014 at 4:44 am

Thanks, hope it helps!

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Victor Dalchiele

February 6, 2016 at 10:27 pm

Hi! Im new on the forum. I’m trying ATC in my system, but i have a question:

Could i scan only objects that are recently created?

My objective is scan a package once a week but only scan the new objects.

Thanks for help!

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Thomas Fiedler

February 15, 2016 at 2:20 pm

Hi Victor,

this kind of ltering is currently not supported in ATC. But the requirement is quite clear to us and already in our implementation backlog.

We will send out the information in our community once we can communicate the availability

Regards,

Thomas.

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Victor Dalchiele

February 15, 2016 at 2:33 pm

Ok, thanks for answering. Finally we make a “Z” to have this functionality, but I would like to implement the SAP implementation if done.

Regards!

Victor Dalchiele

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Former Member

March 2, 2016 at 7:14 am

Nice Document, Thanks for sharing

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Mario Kopp

March 8, 2016 at 10:30 am

Hi !

I have a question regarding the ATC Checks. Since we have started to improve the quality of our custome code by ATC we see that the Developers very often use the PROGMA functionality. This
is normally OK but in some cases the Quality Manager wants that this will not be possible. In other words , the QA wants that some PRAGMAs are not possible and that this have to be done by
claiming an Exemption.

Best regards

Mario

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Former Member

March 11, 2016 at 4:51 pm

Hello Mario,

at present it is not possible to prevent the use for some pragmas and to allow it for others. As stop gap solution one can allow pragmas in general und use a CI search test to raise a nding in
case a blacklisted pragma has been used.

Ciao

Klaus

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Former Member

September 20, 2016 at 7:05 am

Hi,

I’m trying to con gure the development system to connect to master ATC system. But ATC con guration on my system is dissabled. How I can connect to master system? Is there any speci c role that i should have to connect
to master system?

Regards

Madhura

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Former Member

September 20, 2016 at 8:42 am

Hallo Madhura,

you need some authorisations, for details check the chapter ‘Authorisation for the ATC’ of following hyperlink or the online documentation.

http://dewdfth12408.wdf.sap.corp:1080/NW7.5/EN/e7/5d0aa74857455e82746ed198fc494a/frameset.htm

Regards

Klaus

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Former Member

September 21, 2016 at 2:22 pm

Is there a way of getting the ATC into SAP ERP 6 ? SAP Basis 700. Anyone have some information on that?

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Former Member

September 21, 2016 at 2:56 pm

Boris Gebhardt, the product owner of ATC, wrote a while back that the ATC became available to customers with NetWeaver 700 EHP2 (Enhancement Package 2) SP12, which corresponds to
EHP5 for SAP ERP 6.0. So there should be a way…

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Thomas Fiedler

September 21, 2016 at 3:19 pm

Hi Jerome,

ATC is available since SAP BASIS 7.02. In older releases you have to ue the Code Inspector. Or you use the remote ATC infrastructure that can connect to 7.00 ABAP systems as well.

Regards,

Thomas.

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Former Member

September 21, 2016 at 3:23 pm

Thanks for the replies, when you say remote are you referring to SolMan?

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Thomas Fiedler

September 21, 2016 at 3:28 pm

No, the  remote ATC runs on an own AS ABAP instance in your landscape based on SAP BASIS 7.50. The systems connects via RFC to your “old” system and scan the code remotely. SolMan 7.2
cannot beused as the BAsis is 7.40. 

Regards,

Thomas.

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Former Member

April 4, 2018 at 9:55 pm

Hi,

Is there any ATC variant, which checks for the problematic statements in Customer enhancements ( User exits, Customer Exits, Copy routines, BADI ). This is regarding migrating to SOH.

OR

How do we check for the problematic statements in Customer enhancements ( User exits, Customer Exits, Copy routines, BADI ) while migrating to SOH.

The variants FUNCTIONAL_DB and FUNCTIONAL_DB_ADDITION do not capture ndings in custom code in Customer enhancements.
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Thanks.

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Olga Dolinskaja | Post author

April 5, 2018 at 2:46 pm

Hi Sunil,

this is a general issue: how ATC checks the code. We signi cantly improved the coverage of checked code in ATC with SAP NetWeaver 7.52 enabling to scan the folowing artifacts: modi cations,
customer enhancements, User/Customer exits, Maintenance views (views and tables used for customizing), Smart Forms.

Regards,

Olga.

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Former Member

April 5, 2018 at 6:41 pm

Hi Olga,

Thanks for your quick reply.

We are on SAP NetWeaver 7.4 and We are migrating to HANA. We want to check for problematic statements in all the customer enhancements, User exits, Customer Exits, Copy routines, BADI’s
etc..

Is there a simple or straight forward way to nd problematic statements in all the customer enhancements, User exits, Customer Exits, Copy routines, BADI’s etc..?

Or kindly suggest on the approach we need to follow.

Thanks.

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Olga Dolinskaja | Post author

April 7, 2018 at 7:29 pm

Hi Sunil,

as I explained above: the source code coverage by ATC was improved in SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.52, therefore you would need to set up such a system (SAP_BASIS 7.52 only) as an ATC
central check system to check your SAP NetWeaver 7.4 systems remotely using ATC remote code analysis .

Best regards,

Olga.

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Former Member

April 9, 2018 at 5:22 pm

Hi Olga,

Thank you very much.

Thanks.

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