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Claude Code for SAP ABAP Developers

Agentic coding with Claude Code in the terminal and IDE: CLAUDE.md, subagents, hooks, MCP, CI pipelines and secure permissions.

Duration
2 days (14 hrs)
Format
Online or on-site
Language
German or English
Participants
open dates or exclusive for your team
Certificate
Certificate of attendance

Overview

“Claude Code for SAP ABAP Developers” is a hands-on course for roles such as ABAP developers in in-house IT and SAP consultancies, SAP technical consultants and development architects and Teams working on S/4HANA conversion and clean core projects. Rather than learning Claude Code in the abstract, you work on tasks from your daily routine – with examples, exercises and templates from SAP & ABAP.

Claude Code is Anthropic’s agentic coding assistant, working directly in your terminal and in popular IDEs. Rather than completing individual lines, it reads your repository, plans changes across multiple files, runs commands, executes tests and prepares commits. Over two days you will learn to use it with deliberate control: clear project instructions in CLAUDE.md, careful context management, and a workflow in which you set the direction as a developer and can trace every change the agent makes back to a clear intention.

The course is built around real engineering work: diagnosing bugs, delivering features, refactoring legacy code and filling gaps in test coverage. You will configure subagents for specialised tasks, enforce quality checks with hooks, connect external systems through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and capture team knowledge as reusable skills. Finally, you will run Claude Code headless in CI pipelines and define permissions, sandboxing and approval rules so that its use remains defensible even in security-sensitive environments.

Few development landscapes carry as much accumulated logic as SAP. Custom reports, user exits, BAdIs and Z programmes built up over many years must be assessed, adapted or replaced with clean core extensions for S/4HANA. AI coding assistants and agents help you make sense of undocumented ABAP, resolve ABAP Test Cockpit findings, move classic ABAP to modern ABAP with CDS views and the RESTful Application Programming Model, and retrofit unit tests. Because ABAP is tightly woven into dictionary objects, customising and business processes, precise context and disciplined reviews are essential. In this course you learn to apply AI to analysis, refactoring and new development in SAP, aligned with your transport system, namespaces and the quality standards of your SAP operations.

The course is delivered live – either online in a virtual classroom or on-site in our training rooms in Munich, Salzburg, Berlin, Augsburg, Hanover, Bremen, Stuttgart and Kaiserslautern. We can also run it exclusively for your team.

Who is this course for?

  • ABAP developers in in-house IT and SAP consultancies
  • SAP technical consultants and development architects
  • Teams working on S/4HANA conversion and clean core projects
  • SAP Basis and integration specialists who also write code
  • Fiori and RAP developers

Typical challenges we address

  • Large volumes of poorly documented Z code with unclear usage and many dependencies
  • Heavy adaptation effort for simplification items and data model changes during S/4HANA migration
  • Low test coverage because ABAP Unit was rarely used in legacy code
  • Skills shortages and knowledge loss when experienced developers leave

What you will be able to do

  • You use Claude Code for multi-step development tasks while keeping full control over every change.
  • You maintain a CLAUDE.md that effectively conveys project conventions, commands and architectural guidance to the agent.
  • You extend Claude Code with subagents, hooks, MCP servers and skills tailored to your team.
  • You integrate Claude Code into Git workflows and CI pipelines with traceable, test-backed results.
  • Use AI agents to systematically analyse, document and assess existing ABAP for S/4HANA.
  • Modernise classic ABAP in line with clean core principles and secure refactoring with generated ABAP Unit tests.
  • Integrate AI tools with ADT, abapGit and your transport and review process.

Course outline

Day 1

Module 1 How Claude Code works
  • Installation, sign-in and use in the terminal, VS Code and JetBrains IDEs
  • Understanding the agentic loop: read, plan, act, verify
  • Using plan mode to agree on an approach before any code changes
  • Writing effective task briefs with goal, context and acceptance criteria
Module 2 Project context with CLAUDE.md and context management
  • Structuring CLAUDE.md at project, directory and user level
  • Documenting build, test and style conventions so the agent follows them reliably
  • Managing the context window with targeted file references, compaction and fresh sessions
  • Resuming sessions and breaking long tasks into manageable stages
Module 3 Extending Claude Code with subagents, hooks, MCP and skills
  • Defining subagents for code review, research or test generation
  • Using hooks to enforce formatting, linting or checks before and after tool calls
  • Connecting MCP servers for issue trackers, databases or internal documentation
  • Creating custom slash commands and skills for recurring team workflows
Module 4 Git workflows, testing and quality assurance
  • Creating branches, meaningful commits and pull requests with Claude Code
  • Test-first work: have tests written before the implementation
  • Reviewing diffs systematically and rejecting or refining changes
  • Organising parallel work with Git worktrees and multiple sessions

Day 2

Module 5 Headless operation, CI and security
  • Running Claude Code non-interactively in scripts and CI pipelines
  • Automated reviews and issue handling in GitHub or GitLab workflows
  • Configuring permission modes, allow and deny rules, and sandboxing
  • Handling secrets, prompt injection risks and organisation-wide policies
Module 6 Practice lab: SAP & ABAP
  • Analysing ABAP for S/4HANA
  • Documenting legacy code
  • Moving towards clean core
  • Retrofitting ABAP Unit
  • Resolving ATC findings
  • Building RAP and OData services
Module 7 Data protection, quality & transfer to daily work
  • ABAP code often contains business logic, pricing conditions and personal data structures: you learn to assess source code before sharing it with AI services, respect the licence and usage terms of your SAP contracts and comply with GDPR rules for test data.
  • Ground rules for safe AI use in your team
  • Checking results: facts, sources, tests and the four-eyes principle
  • Personal action plan for the next 30 days
  • Open questions, outlook and resources for further learning

Practical scenarios from your field

Analysing ABAP for S/4HANA

Scan Z programmes for access to obsolete tables, changed data models and unreleased APIs, group findings by simplification item and generate concrete remediation proposals with effort estimates.

Documenting legacy code

Have undocumented reports, function modules and user exits explained, summarise programme logic in business terms and produce technical documentation and flow diagrams for knowledge transfer and audits.

Moving towards clean core

Convert classic modifications and SELECT loops into modern ABAP with inline declarations, CDS views and released APIs, and identify candidates for RAP-based side-by-side or developer extensibility.

Retrofitting ABAP Unit

Extract testable interfaces from existing classes, prepare test doubles for database access using the SQL test double framework and generate meaningful unit tests as a safety net for refactoring.

Resolving ATC findings

Prioritise messages from ABAP Test Cockpit and Code Inspector, detect performance issues such as nested SELECTs and propose compliant corrections with an explanation for code review.

Building RAP and OData services

Design CDS data models, behaviour definitions and service bindings from business requirements, implement validations and determinations and generate suitable Fiori elements annotations. The agent follows your naming conventions and package structure.

Possible hands-on projects

Z code inventory

A script that processes exported ABAP sources, classifies objects by usage, complexity and migration relevance and produces a prioritised overview for project planning.

Custom code explainer

A small web app where you paste a report and receive a business-level summary, its table dependencies and migration risks.

RAP scaffolder

A generator that creates CDS views, a behaviour definition and a service skeleton from a table definition, following your naming conventions.

Prerequisites

You have hands-on programming experience in at least one language and are comfortable with Git and the command line. You develop in ABAP on a regular basis and are familiar with ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse or the classic ABAP Workbench.

Technical requirements

Your own laptop with admin rights, Git, a Node.js runtime and an up-to-date editor; a Claude subscription or Anthropic API access is required for the exercises.

Data protection & compliance

ABAP code often contains business logic, pricing conditions and personal data structures: you learn to assess source code before sharing it with AI services, respect the licence and usage terms of your SAP contracts and comply with GDPR rules for test data.

Suggested dates

All dates are suggestions – your preferred date is always possible.

  • Mon, 23 November 2026 – Tue, 24 November 2026 Online Request
  • Thu, 3 December 2026 – Fri, 4 December 2026 Kaiserslautern Request
  • Thu, 10 December 2026 – Fri, 11 December 2026 Online Request
  • Tue, 15 December 2026 – Wed, 16 December 2026 Bremen Request
  • Mon, 18 January 2027 – Tue, 19 January 2027 Online Request
  • Wed, 27 January 2027 – Thu, 28 January 2027 Salzburg Request

Frequently asked questions

How is Claude Code different from traditional code completion?

Code completion suggests the next few lines, whereas Claude Code acts as an agent that handles whole tasks: it searches the repository, plans changes across several files, runs tests and commands, and corrects itself based on the results. You define the goal and review the outcome instead of steering every single line yourself.

Is Claude Code secure enough for enterprise use?

By default, Claude Code asks for approval before editing files or running commands. Permission rules, sandboxing, managed settings and hooks let you define precisely what the agent may do. During the course you learn to configure these mechanisms to match your security and data protection requirements and to assess risks such as prompt injection.

Does Claude Code work with my language and tech stack?

Yes. Claude Code is language-agnostic because it works with files, terminal commands and your existing build and test tooling. Whether you use Python, Java, TypeScript, Go, SAP-related code or infrastructure as code, what matters most is a well-written CLAUDE.md describing your commands and conventions. Each course variant adds the relevant domain focus.

Do AI assistants really understand ABAP?

Current models read and write ABAP competently, but they know nothing about your custom tables, customising or namespaces. Quality improves markedly when you supply dictionary definitions, interfaces and conventions as targeted context. In the course you practise exactly that, for example with sources exported via abapGit and project-specific rule files for the agent.

How does AI-generated code get into the SAP system?

A proven route runs through ADT or abapGit: the assistant works on exported sources or directly in the IDE, changes are reviewed, validated with ATC and ABAP Unit and transported as usual. This preserves the transport system, the four-eyes principle and traceability, and no agent ever writes to production systems unchecked.

How much does “Claude Code for SAP ABAP Developers” cost?

The course costs a flat €949 plus VAT per participant – whether online or on-site. This includes 2 training day(s) with a live trainer, course materials, a lab environment and a certificate of attendance.

Can I suggest my own date?

Yes. Our suggested dates are just a guide. In the request form you can always describe your preferred date or period in free text – we check availability and confirm within one working day.

Is the course online or on-site?

Both are possible: live online in a virtual classroom or on-site in Munich, Salzburg, Berlin, Augsburg, Hanover, Bremen, Stuttgart or Kaiserslautern. We can also run the course exclusively for your team.

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