Functional Overview (SAP Library - ABAP Runtime Tools)

Functional Overview

Use

The ABAP Debugger is an integrated test tool within the ABAP Workbench. You use it to find errors in the source code of an ABAP program. In the Debugger, you can step through the source code of a program. The running program is interrupted after each step, allowing you to check its processing logic and the results of individual statements.

Features

The Debugger provides an efficient means of identifying errors in ABAP programs.

It contains the following functions:

· Ways of starting the Debugger

Choosing Debugger settings

Choosing different execution options in the Debugger

Displaying source code in the Debugger

· Setting and deleting breakpoints

· Setting and deleting watchpoints

· Stopping a program at a particular statement, event, subroutine, or function module

Displaying and changing field contents at runtime

Displaying objects in ABAP Objects

Displaying and positioning strings

Opening the ABAP Editor, ABAP Dictionary, or Object Navigator