ABAP

The Best ABAP Static Analysis Tools (Linters/Formatters)

We rank 8 ABAP linters, code analyzers, formatters, and more. Find and compare tools like Teamscale, abaplint, abapOpenChecks, and more. Please rate and review tools that you've used. This helps others find the best tools for their projects.

2 ABAP Tools

abaplint

Linter for ABAP, written in TypeScript.

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  • 75% upvoted

abapOpenChecks

Enhances the SAP Code Inspector with new and customizable checks.

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  • 50% upvoted

6 Multi-Language Tools

Teamscale

Static and dynamic analysis tool supporting more than 25 languages and direct IDE integration. Free hosting for Open Source projects available on request. Free academic licenses available.

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  • 79% upvoted

Soto Platform

Suite of static analysis tools consisting of the three components Sotoarc (Architecture Analysis), Sotograph (Quality Analysis), and Sotoreport (Quality report). Helps find differences between architecture and implementation, interface violations (e.g. external access of private parts of subsystems, detection of all classes, files, packages and subsystems which are strongly coupled by cyclical relationships and more. The Sotograph product family runs on Windows and Linux.

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  • 33% upvoted

SonarCloud

SonarCloud enables your team to deliver clean code consistently and efficiently with a code review tool that easily integrates into the cloud DevOps platforms and extend your CI/CD workflow. SonarCloud is free for open source projects.

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  • 44% upvoted

StaticReviewer

Static Reviewer executes code checks according to the most relevant Secure Coding Standards, OWASP, CWE, CVE, CVSS, MISRA, CERT, for 40+ programming languages, using 1000+ built-in validation rules for Security, Deadcode & Best Practices Available a module for Software Composition Analysis (SCA) to find vulnerabilities in open source and third party libraries.

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  • 40% upvoted

CAST Highlight

Commercial Static Code Analysis which runs locally, but uploads the results to its cloud for presentation.

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  • 30% upvoted

Fortify

A commercial static analysis platform that supports the scanning of C/C++, C#, VB.NET, VB6, ABAP/BSP, ActionScript, Apex, ASP.NET, Classic ASP, VB Script, Cobol, ColdFusion, HTML, Java, JS, JSP, MXML/Flex, Objective-C, PHP, PL/SQL, T-SQL, Python (2.6, 2.7), Ruby (1.9.3), Swift, Scala, VB, and XML.

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  • 46% upvoted

Frequently Asked Questions

What are ABAP tools?

ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming, originally Allgemeiner Berichts-Aufbereitungs-Prozessor, German for "general report creation processor") is a high-level programming language created by the German software company SAP SE. It is extracted from the base computing languages Java, C, C++ and Python.

What are the best ABAP static analysis tools and linters?

The most popular ABAP tools ranked by user votes are: Teamscale, abaplint, abapOpenChecks, Soto Platform, SonarCloud.

Which ABAP services are free for open source projects?

Commercial services with a free plan for open source include abaplint, abapOpenChecks, SonarCloud.

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