AbapConf2024: Setting Up On-Premise ABAP CI/CD with GitHub Actions

Welcome to the AbapConf2024 repository!

This project contains the source code showcased during the AbapConf 2024 demo: "Setting Up On-Premise ABAP CI/CD with GitHub Actions".

The demo follows concepts from this article, with updates reflecting the latest component changes.

🛠 What’s the Demo About?

Setting up a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions for an ABAP On-Premise system.

In this repository there's the source code of an ABAP report that will validate with a regex an italian VAT number.

The unit tests in this package consist in testing the validity of that regex.

Tools Used

• abapGit
• abapLint
• ADASH
• TRM (Transport Request Manager)

📋 CI/CD Pipeline Breakdown

1. Code
   Developers create features and fix bugs in this stage.

2. Build
   In ABAP, the build process involves releasing a transport request, which converts ABAP code/objects into binary files.

3. Test

   • Linter: Checks that the ABAP code is syntactically correct.
   • Unit Tests: Ensures features work and no breaking changes are introduced.
   • Note: While testing should ideally occur in a dedicated system, for simplicity, tests are run on the development system in this demo.

4. Release

   • After successful tests, a release is created with a version and dependencies.

   Each release of the software has a version and prerequisites/dependencies: the advantage of creating a release in this stage is assuring that whenever a specific version is installed and the prerequisites are ok, the release will work in a precise way.

5. Deploy (Optional, but shown in the demo)

   • Automatic deployment to a target system with the latest features and fixes.

🌍 Demo Environments

Central Development System (Source)	Customer Development System (Target)	Customer Quality System
A4H (via Nuve)	RST	RGD

Installed Software

• A4H (Source - Central Development System)

  • abapGit
  • ADASH
  • TRM

• RST (Target - Customer Development System)

  • TRM

• RGD (Customer Quality System)

  • No additional software is required.

Notice how no software/utility has to exist on RGD (customer quality system): the transport from development (RST) to quality (RGD) is always done manually.

🎥 Video Demo

You can watch the live demo from the AbapConf 2024 Channel 2 livestream by clicking on this video thumbnail.

📑 Presentation

You can find the conference presentation here.

🔗 Links

• TRM package: https://trmregistry.com/#/package/abapconf2024

Can be installed with TRM

trm install abapconf2024 1.0.0