ATC: ABAP Test Cockpit

The ABAP Test Cockpit (ATC) is the central SAP tool to check, evaluate and improve the quality of customer ABAP developments (so-called Z-Code).

What is the benefit?

The number of companies that use and appreciate ATC productively is growing rapidly. There are several reasons for this:

Increases the security, stability, performance, maintainability and release capability of in-house developed programs and supports the introduction of HANA and S/4HANA.
Also increases the competence of developers and their awareness of the above-mentioned issues.
Is included as standard and is easy and inexpensive to implement.
Requires little administrative effort and runs largely automatically and “silently” – provided that the implementation was done well.
ATC will be further expanded. For example, under S/4HANA and the use of ADT (ABAP Development Tool, successor to SE80) there is the possibility of mass changes to programs.

clavis supports you with additional, exclusive services

A tried and tested procedure model
The inventory and evaluation of your customer-specific developments
A derived strategy for an ATC implementation

We also have preconfigured templates for the checks available for you and have developed a number of additional tools that extend and optimize the ABAP Test Cockpit, such as

System-wide test runs and automated notification of developers about found errors
Automated release of findings, according to defined rules
ATC errors when checking SAP standard code in the customer namespace (e.g. OData services) are ignored
Customer-specific ATC checks in addition to SAP standard checks
GDPR-compliant check of access to personal data or connection to ILM

Benefit from our strategy

Experience shows that ATC is hardly noticeable after a few weeks in productive use, but it has a measurable effect: the quality of the developments reaches a significantly higher level and saves IT maintenance and development costs in the long term.

But: If the ABAP Test Cockpit is introduced without “advance warning”, this can lead to a considerable hindrance for the developers, who are suddenly confronted with unexpected and unknown requirements.