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ATC and Code Inspector — the checks your transport is judged by

Level: 201 · working knowledge

Status: stub — the shape is here; the worked example is not yet.

One line: The ABAP Test Cockpit runs a configured set of Code Inspector checks — performance, security, syntax against a target release, naming, obsolete statements — over your objects, and in most landscapes a transport with errors will not be released, so the checks are part of the definition of done rather than an optional extra.

What it checks, roughly

  • Performance — SELECT inside a loop, missing WHERE, nested loops, SELECT *.
  • Security — dynamic SQL from user input, missing authority checks, hard-coded credentials.
  • Robustness — unhandled exceptions, CATCH cx_root, division without a guard.
  • Syntax and release — checking source against a target release, which is how a downport is caught before transport.
  • Obsolete statements — the list that grows every release.
  • Naming and style — whatever the landscape has configured, which varies enormously.

SCI is the older front end and ATC the current one, with SE80/ADT integration. Exemptions are requested and approved rather than simply suppressed — deliberately, because an exemption is a decision someone owns.

Its relationship with this library

The checks abaplint runs here are the same kind of check, run on a laptop and in CI instead of in a system: parse, syntax-check against a named release, refuse obsolete statements. See Keywords for exactly what that does and does not prove, and note that the ATC — with the real system behind it — sees everything abaplint cannot: the SAP class library, the Dictionary, the authorization objects.

What this page still needs

  • [ ] a real ATC run over a small object, with the finding list recorded
  • [ ] how to configure a check variant, and which checks are worth switching on first
  • [ ] the ABAP Cloud check variant, and what it flags in ordinary old code
  • [ ] the exemption workflow, and how teams keep it from becoming a rubber stamp

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