ABAP Testing and Troubleshooting Tools – Which Features Are In Which Releases?
The ABAP environment provides a rich suite of testing and troubleshooting tools so that you can verify the formal and functional correctness of your programs during development and testing, and analyze problems in production. Just to name the most important of them: ABAP Unit, Coverage Analyzer, Code Inspector, New Debugger, Runtime Analysis, Memory Inspector. During numerous discussions with customers, the questions emerge again and again about the availability of the particular major features in these ABAP tools in the SAP NetWeaver releases.
In order to answer these questions and also for your reference, the table below offers the overview of the availability of the major ABAP testing and troubleshooting tools features in the SAP NetWeaver Releases. This selected collection represents the major features, which are most relevant for the effective tools usage.
I think (don't know exactly) it was introduced with Netweaver7.0 (ECC6.0?).
Many developers just don't know about existing check-group-controlled breakpoints in SAP standard as i.e. ALV grid.
We used it to log the parameter values of failed RFC calls.
This is extremely useful but widely unknown.