Get Your Program up to Speed

In the last weblog (weblog 12)you have got to know a very important tool for developers, the debugger. In this weblog (weblog 13 of our weblog series) you get to know another important tool for an ABAP developer, the ABAP Runtime Analysis. I will give you a short overview on the ABAP Runtime Analysis and about how to use it to identify "performance killers" within your programs. The runtime analysis provides an overview of the duration of your source code, from individual statements up to complete programs. You will probably be pleased to learn that in the SAP AS ABAP it is very easy to start the debugger. You can diverge into the debugger from the normal state of the system. There is no need to start the system in a particular debugging mode in ABAP. Moreover I will show you how to benefit from some really useful features of the ABAP keyword documentation. All these explanations are embedded in a practical example: We will change the program from weblog 11 in order to present fewer columns in the UI, to order the entries and to minimize the result set. In the course of doing this, you will learn: