The Modern ABAP Development Landscape

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Modern ABAP starter checklist

• Know your system: Public Edition and BTP are ABAP Cloud only; Private Edition and on-premise (2022+) offer both models.
• Work in ADT; CDS, RAP and service bindings have no SAP GUI editor.
• Check an object’s language version and API state in the Properties view.
• Never build anything a tester relies on in $TMP or ZLOCAL.
• Keep new ABAP Cloud code in its own software component and packages.
• Use released APIs (for example I_COUNTRY, not T005) in ABAP Cloud code.
• Write ABAP Unit tests with FOR TESTING, a risk level and a duration; assert with CL_ABAP_UNIT_ASSERT.
• Run ATC with the agreed variant before every task release; run ABAP_CLOUD_READINESS on classic code you touch.
• Attach unit test and ATC evidence to the change before it moves to test.