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Mastering SAP ABAP

By : Paweł Grześkowiak, Wojciech Ciesielski, Wojciech Ćwik
Book Image

Mastering SAP ABAP

By: Paweł Grześkowiak, 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 (25 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 16. Performance and Optimization of ABAP Code

The SAP system, in its out-of-the-box variant, is a complex environment built to run various types of industries. This complexity and all custom adjustments developed to tailor the system to customer specific needs, if not handled properly, may lead to low performance and thus make users frustrated because of long-running processes.

Software should be created in such a way as to waste as few resources as possible. Implementing the code in this way allows the user to easily add new functionalities. To help them with this mission, there are several tools (SAT, SE30, ST12) that allow for easy, yet detailed analysis of the program's flow and efficiency.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Ways of measuring ABAP programs performance
  • ABAP runtime analysis
  • ABAP trace analysis
  • ABAP SAT transactions
  • Best practice techniques