I want to learn Debugging, how to become debug expert..?

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I would like to learn Debugging. As an ABAPer I am facing lot of issues due to lack of debugging knowledge.

I know debugging what the code I developed. but when I want to work with other's bugs or defects there are lot of standard FM or Routines or classes I need to debug. I could not under stand where the cursor is going and why it is going all things I want to learn.

I need tip for debugging standard programs or other developer programs.

Please help me on this.

Regards,

Sri RAM

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[former_member182915]

secondly debugging of FM and Routine have a practice of putting soft breakpoint or hardcode i.e. Break <user name>.

I hope you have good grip on watchpoint , debug on fm calling, method. 

[matt]

I really don't understand what you are asking here.

To become an expert in anything you read the material, and you gain experience by doing it. What else is there?

When I started in ABAP we didn't have an internet and it wasn't always easy to find the documentation. Therefore I learned the classic debugging mainly by trying it. Similarly when the new debugger came in. It's largely intuitive and not very difficult.

[kiran_k8]

Matt,

No Internet when you started in ABAP ? How many decades back was that ? 🙂

Hats Off to you.

K.Kiran.

[matt]

Well - not much of it. Certainly the idea of having access from a corporate computer was unusual. And there were little useful information online, even if you did have access.

That was 1997. Things changed very quickly, and by 2000, I was a regular on sapFans.

[Former Member]

You have to go through the documents available for better understanding of debugging.

Well you no need to debug the standard FM or methods always. Just skip the debugging of standards and check what importing and exporting parameters. If you find any problem with the exporting parameter values then find the root cause and fix the problem. If you find any problem in the importing values, check the exporting parameters and fix it.

Sometimes it's very difficult to analyze through the importing and exporting parameters, in this case the standard has to be debugged.

To become an expert debugger you have to go through the documents avaialble online and practice it.

Regards,

Satish

[former_member185054]

sriram,

Practice makes a man perfect.... keep learning,try to debug the standard program. use various tools options in debugger.

regards,

sampath.

[naimesh_patel]

I want to learn Debugging, how to become debug expert..?

by /h and enter

[former_member184158]

Hi Naimesh,

thats all /h,  

[matt]

That's how most of us did it.