DevOps has become a widespread movement in the world of IT and has shown that agility and quality are not mutually exclusive. However, the world of SAP ABAP has so far successfully resisted and DevOps is more a buzzword than actual practices which are used to deliver value to the customer. Since July 2017 a team of DSAG* members has been working to define the meaning of DevOps for SAP ABAP system, what are the reasons why ABAP is still considered a “special snowflake” and how concepts like continuous integration and delivery could be adapted. This presentation highlights the main topics of discussion and is explicitly marked as work in progress, but will hopefully bring others to join the discussion and prove the concepts in the real world. *The DSAG is a group of over 3000 companies which represent a big portion of the german speaking part of SAP customers. They all work together to shape the SAP portfolio to the actual need of SAP customers, inform about new SAP technologies/services and offer a community to discuss and learn from each other.

1. DevOps in SAP ABAP Landscapes
SAP Inside Track Berlin 2018
Sascha Junkert, Festo AG & Co. KG
Email: sascha.junkert@festo.com
Twitter: @SaschaJunkert
Last Update: Aug. 31st 2018

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Agenda
1. DevOps? Motivation & Definition
2. Development in ABAP & NonABAP Landscapes
3. 5 vs. 4 System Landscape (with Feature Toggles)
4. Test Management
5. (Cultural) Change Management
6. Summary and Capability Map

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- Started in July 2017 by EWE and Festo
- What is DevOps? Why is it such a rarity in the ABAP community? How can we leverage the
existing methods and practices?
- Focus on knowledge exchange between SAP customers
- Collaboration with SAP product mgmt.
- Eight meetings since August 2017 in Walldorf, Germany
- Around 50 members
DSAG: DevOps Working Group

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DevOps?
DevOps…
“Getting rid of Operations”
“Another buzzword for build and
deployment automation”
“A team that moderates
between Dev and Ops”
“Isn’t that just a
new word for ‘agile’?”
“It’s a mindset thing”
“Does DevOps manage
business or technology problems?”
“Does DevOps ‘solve’ ITIL?”
“Full-Stack DevOps Engineers”
“Infrastructure Automation –
CHEF, Puppet, Saltstack, …”
“Two-Pizza Teams”

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The Core Values Of DevOps (CAMS)
Continuous
Integration & Delivery
Infrastructure
Provisioning
Test Management
Source: http://devopsdictionary.com + http://itrevolution.com

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Classic ABAP Development
DEV QAS PROD
SE80
Eclipse ADT
SE80
Sandbox
Project
DEV System
Source Code Repository
Build Environment
Artefact Repository
Runtime environment
↯ ↯
CTS CTS

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Development in NonABAP Landscapes

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Continuous Integration
Source: https://martinfowler.com

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ABAP Development with abapGit (1)
DEV QAS PROD
Source: https://blogs.sap.com
Git Repository
Push
Change & Push
SE80
Eclipse ADT
SE80
CTS CTS
master
abapGit
• Code versioning and backup
• Enabler for code reviews
• Enabler for experiments und rollbacks
• No replacement of CTS
• Open Source Projects: dotabap.org

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ABAP Development with abapGit (2)
DEV QAS PROD
Source: https://blogs.sap.com
Git Rep.
Dedicated DEV System
Pull Push Pull
Trunk 2
CTS CTS
Master
Dedicated Dev Systems
• Parallel development and experiments
• abapGit as central source code repository
• Continuous integration required (syncing)
• Increased maintenance effort and costs (↯)
Dedicated DEV System
Dedicated DEV System

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5- vs 4-System Landscapes
5 Systems
with Release & Maintenance Track
4 Systems
with Feature Toggles
DEV1
QAS PRODDEV2
TEST
DEV PRODQASTEST

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Success Factor: Feature Toggles
Open Source: https://github.com/BTCAG/Featuretoggle
Quelle: EWE AG / BTC AG

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Success Factor: Test Management
Testing starts with
requirements
Business Process
Mgmt.
Automated
Regression testing

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Success Factor: (Cultural) Change Mgmt.
#NoSilos Agile Mindset TDD / Shift Left OOP, UI5, S/4, …
RED
GREEN
REFACTOR ABAP

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Summary
DevOps and objectives need to be clearly defined
ABAP development must evolve (CI/CD  #ABAPisNotDead)
Automated testing is a requirement for fast release cycles
(Cultural) change mgmt. is the critical success factor
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DevOps for ABAP Capability Map
IDE (Eclipse
ADT, SE80)
Source Code
Repository
(abapGIT)
Continuous
Integration
Agile & TDD
Mindset
Static Code
Checks
(ATC,
Code Inspector)
Feature
Toggles
Development
Continuous
Delivery
Configuration
Management
System
Provisioning
(LaMa,
Container)
Capacity
Mgmt.
Dashboards
Dev / Build
Environment
Provisioning
Infrastructure
Automation
Change Impact
Analysis
(BPCA)
Performance &
Load Tests
Functional
Acceptance
Tests
Regression
Tests
Test Automation (CBTA, …)
Code Review &
Discussion
Quality
Development
KPIs
Application
KPIs
Monitoring
Infrastructure
&
System
Monitoring
(Automated)
Unit Tests
(abapUnit)
Transport
Management
Business
Process
Documentation
CultureandChangeMgmt.
ABAP Objects
Development
Guidelines
“Requirement
to Test”
Process
Infrastructure
KPIs

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Thank you!
Questions?
Next DSAG DevOps Meetup:
ABAP Deployment Pipelines (with Git and more)
Sept. 17th in Walldorf

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