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Online Debugging

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Objectives

• The participants will be able to:

– Use SAP’s online debugger

– Set Breakpoints in ABAP Code
– Select appropriate debugging strategies

for correcting programming errors

– Set Watchpoints in ABAP Code

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The Online Debugging Tool

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The Online Debugging Display

Execution control

buttons.

Click to
display
current
statement.

The program and the
event the debugger is
processing.

Source Code

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Online Debugging Display

Modes

Use these buttons
to page through
the code

Online debugging

navigation buttons

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Displaying Field Contents

Area for watch variables. These are
user chosen variables that can be
monitored as they change value
during execution.

Buttons for

hexadecimal display

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Displaying the Contents of an

Internal Table

Contents of

internal

table

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The ‘change’ button

Replacing Field Values at

Runtime

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Initial Values of an Internal Table

Debugger

Debugger

New Values of an Internal Table

Changing Internal Tables at

Runtime

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The Delete Button

Deleting a Row from an Internal

Table

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Editing a Row of an Internal

Table

The Change button

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Adding a Row to an Internal

Table

The Insert and Append Buttons

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Debugging Strategies

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Using Breakpoints

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CASE WORLD_SERIES.

WHEN COLORADO_ROCKIES.

WRITE ‘WORLD’S GREATEST TEAM’.

WHEN OTHERS.

WRITE ‘MAYBE NEXT YEAR’.

BREAK-POINT.

ENDCASE.

Setting Static Breakpoints

Setting a static

breakpoint

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Setting Dynamic Breakpoints

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Displaying Dynamic

Breakpoints

Buttons for Navigation and Deletion

Active Breakpoints

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Setting Breakpoints at

Keywords or Events

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Setting Watchpoints

Create watchpoint

button

Logical Operators between watchpoints

List of existing watchpoints

Create watchpoint screen

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Deleting and Deactivating

Breakpoints

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Deleting and Deactivating

Dynamic Breakpoints

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Debugging Without Breakpoints

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Switching to the ABAP Editor

from within the Debugger

Editing

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No Problem!

Debugging

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Releasing the Database During

Debugging

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Summary

• The participants should be able to:

– Use SAP’s online debugger

– Set Breakpoints in ABAP Code
– Select appropriate debugging strategies

for correcting programming errors

– Set Watchpoints in ABAP Code

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