Part 2 of the “Writing robust, understandable, maintainable, state-of-the-art ABAP programs” very much continues along the groundwork that was laid in part 1 of the free SAP Professionals Journal guide.

One problem I’ve found in the past when working on client sites is that – for various reasons – create/change access to the ABAP Data Dictionary is not always granted to external developers. This obviously poses a problem when trying to implement some of the guide’s suggestions. Part 2 is very helpful in terms of data declaration syntax, internal tables and global/local declarations.