ABAP Code Analysis Tool: Governed Evaluation Guide

Decision context

ABAP code analysis tools are critical for managing SAP ERP modernization, ensuring code quality, security, and compliance with evolving requirements. Adranum’s tool ingests authorized SAP ABAP source code and related artifacts to provide comprehensive coverage and dependency insights.

Unlike generic static analysis tools, Adranum focuses on governed SAP change by integrating readiness checks, ATC results, DDIC metadata, and abapGit sources. This enables precise mapping of observed and inferred dependencies, essential for informed keep/replace/remediate/retire decisions.

Adranum’s ABAP code analysis tool generates reviewable code and data proposals with content-addressed implementation packages, supporting human approvals and coordinated cutover. It maintains transparency by reporting unsupported inputs and missing evidence, critical for risk management in SAP modernization.

Integration with SAP Change Governance

Adranum’s ABAP code analysis tool is designed to work within governed SAP change processes. It ingests multiple evidence types including SAP readiness data, ATC (ABAP Test Cockpit) results, ABAP Dictionary (DDIC) metadata, and abapGit repositories. This comprehensive ingestion ensures that analysis reflects the current and planned SAP system state.

The tool maps dependencies both observed in runtime and inferred from static metadata, enabling teams to understand the impact of changes across code, data, and process layers. This dependency mapping supports decisions to keep, replace, remediate, or retire ABAP objects in modernization projects.

• Ingests SAP readiness, ATC, DDIC, and abapGit data
• Maps observed and inferred dependencies
• Supports governance decisions on ABAP objects

Coverage Reporting and Unsupported Inputs

Adranum reports detailed coverage metrics indicating which ABAP objects and processes are analyzed and which inputs remain unsupported or missing. This transparency helps teams identify gaps in evidence that could affect risk assessments and remediation planning.

By highlighting unsupported inputs, the tool prevents blind spots in modernization efforts and encourages teams to collect additional evidence or adjust scope accordingly.

• Detailed coverage metrics for ABAP code and processes
• Visibility of unsupported or missing inputs
• Supports risk-aware decision making

Code and Data Remediation Proposals

The tool generates reviewable proposals for code and data remediation based on analysis results. These proposals are content-addressed, enabling traceability and repeatability in implementation.

Generated proposals remain suggestions until customer-controlled compilation and runtime validations succeed, ensuring that final changes meet operational requirements and do not introduce regressions.

• Reviewable code and data remediation proposals
• Content-addressed implementation packages
• Customer-controlled compilation and validation

Human Approvals and Change Coordination

Adranum records human approvals for remediation and modernization proposals, integrating governance with operational execution. This ensures accountability and auditability in SAP change processes.

The tool coordinates cutover activities, reconciliation, continuity, and exact-state recovery, supporting complex SAP modernization scenarios where downtime and data consistency are critical.

• Records human approvals for governance
• Coordinates cutover and reconciliation
• Supports exact-state recovery

Security and Data Privacy Boundaries

Adranum allows signed customer operators to keep raw service data, source code, and credentials within their own infrastructure. Only bounded commands, hashes, aggregate outcomes, and reconciliation evidence are returned externally.

This architecture reduces exposure of sensitive SAP data and credentials, aligning with enterprise security policies and compliance requirements.

• Raw data and credentials remain customer-controlled
• Returns bounded commands and aggregate outcomes
• Supports compliance with data privacy policies

What the workflow must cover

• Multi-source Evidence Ingestion. Adranum ingests SAP readiness, ATC, ABAP Dictionary metadata, abapGit repositories, process-event logs, and data quality evidence to provide a holistic view of ABAP code state and dependencies.
• Dependency Mapping and Impact Analysis. The tool maps both observed runtime and inferred static dependencies, enabling precise impact analysis for SAP modernization decisions.
• Coverage and Gap Reporting. It reports coverage of analyzed ABAP objects and processes, highlighting unsupported inputs to inform risk-aware remediation planning.
• Proposal Generation for Code Remediation. Adranum generates reviewable, content-addressed proposals for code and data remediation, supporting traceability and governance.
• Governed Change Coordination. The tool records human approvals and coordinates cutover, reconciliation, and exact-state recovery to ensure controlled SAP change execution.
• Secure Data Handling. Raw source and credentials remain inside customer infrastructure, reducing risk and supporting compliance with enterprise security policies.

Implementation workflow

Start with a bounded customer scenario and explicit acceptance criteria. Preserve native SAP permissions and accountable review while the software creates a repeatable evidence chain.

1. Collect SAP readiness, ATC, DDIC, abapGit, and process-event evidence
2. Ingest and normalize evidence into Adranum’s analysis engine
3. Perform dependency mapping and coverage assessment
4. Generate code and data remediation proposals
5. Review proposals and obtain human approvals
6. Coordinate cutover, reconciliation, and exact-state recovery
7. Execute changes with customer-controlled compilation and runtime validation

Evidence to require

A transformation claim should resolve to observable artifacts, decisions, and execution receipts. Ask for the following evidence in a representative evaluation:

• SAP readiness reports
• ATC static code analysis results
• ABAP Dictionary metadata exports
• abapGit source repositories
• Process-event logs
• Requirement and data quality evidence
• Generated code proposals
• Implementation package hashes
• Test impact analysis reports
• Human approval records

Boundaries and non-claims

Adranum separates analysis, proposal, human review, package creation, customer-local validation, and production execution. A later state never rewrites the evidence that supported an earlier decision.

• Does not replace SAP licensing or Basis administration
• Generated code proposals require customer compilation and runtime validation
• Does not provide full specialist testing coverage in all scenarios
• Unsupported inputs remain visible and may limit analysis completeness

Public comparison sources

Competitor statements are limited to current public materials. Verify them during procurement because products and packaging change.

• ABAP Static Code Analysis & Code Quality Programming ...
• ABAP Testing and Analysis
• OWASP/abap-code-scanner
• ABAP Code Security with SAST Static Code Analysis | Blog
• Code Vulnerability Analysis for SAP

Buyer checklist

• Which SAP evidence sources does the tool ingest and support?
• How does the tool map dependencies between ABAP objects and processes?
• What visibility does the tool provide on unsupported or missing inputs?
• How are code remediation proposals generated and reviewed?
• Does the tool support human approvals and governance workflows?
• How does the tool coordinate cutover and reconciliation activities?
• Where is raw SAP source code and credentials stored during analysis?
• What are the limitations regarding testing coverage and code proposal validation?