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Mastering SAP ABAP

By : Paweł Grześkowiak, Philipp Deth, Wojciech Ciesielski, Wojciech Ćwik
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Mastering SAP ABAP

By: Paweł Grześkowiak, Philipp Deth, Wojciech Ciesielski, Wojciech Ćwik

Overview of this book

Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) is an established and complex programming language in the IT industry. This book is designed to help you use the latest ABAP techniques and apply legacy constructions using practical examples. You'll start with a quick refresher on language and database concepts, followed by agile techniques for adding custom code to a modern ABAP system. After this, you will get up to speed with the complete ABAP toolset for importing data to and from different environments. Next, you'll learn how to print forms and work with the different ABAP tools for Extensible Markup Language (XML) manipulation. While covering further chapters, you'll gain insights into building stunning UI5 interfaces, in addition to learning how to develop simple apps using the Business Object Processing Framework (BOPF). You will also pick up the technique of handling exceptions and performing testing in ABAP. In the concluding chapters, you can look forward to grasping various techniques for optimizing the performance of programs using a variety of performance analysis tools. By the end of this book, you will have the expertise you need to confidently build maintainable programs in Systems, Applications, and Products (SAP).
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Creating Custom Code

The chapter is an introduction to the Systems, Applications, Products (SAP) system. You will learn how to organize their daily work, how to act within SAP systems, how to add custom code, and how to change software features of SAP systems. This chapter presents modern techniques of cooperation within a company. Basic knowledge of these issues is required to work with the SAP system. This chapter is an introduction to the more complex and difficult topics contained in this book.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter: 

  • Making changes
  • Design thinking
  • Big Design Up Front/Little Design Up Front (BDUF/LDUF)
  • Designing for quality and use
  • Designing the User Interface (UI)
  • Designing the services
  • Designing the business logic
  • Designing the database
  • Agile principles
  • DevOps
  • Continuous Delivery