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Cursor for SAP ABAP Developers

Work productively with the AI code editor Cursor: agent mode, rules, codebase context, Tab completion, background agents and review.

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

“Cursor 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 Cursor in the abstract, you work on tasks from your daily routine – with examples, exercises and templates from SAP & ABAP.

Cursor is an AI code editor built on VS Code that weaves language models deeply into everyday development. Alongside context-aware Tab completion, it offers an agent mode that searches files on its own, plans changes across the whole project, runs terminal commands and fixes errors iteratively. In this two-day course you will learn to use Cursor with purpose: choosing the right interaction mode, steering context deliberately and combining AI assistance with your existing workflow of version control, automated testing and peer code review.

A key focus is making Cursor work for teams. Project rules let you capture architectural decisions, naming conventions and testing strategies so that the agent produces consistent results. You will learn to make good use of codebase indexing, targeted references to files, documentation and symbols, and MCP integrations. You will also delegate tasks to background agents, review their output as pull requests and set up a review process that takes quality, security and data protection seriously across the organisation.

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 choose the right Cursor mode for each task and use it efficiently.
  • You steer codebase context precisely and get more accurate suggestions as a result.
  • You write project rules that reliably enforce your team’s conventions.
  • You use agent mode and background agents for features and refactorings with verifiable 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 Setting up Cursor and understanding its modes
  • Installation and migration of VS Code settings and extensions
  • Differences between Tab completion, inline edits, Ask mode and Agent mode
  • Choosing a model per task: balancing speed, depth and cost
  • Privacy mode and organisation-level settings
Module 2 Steering codebase context
  • How codebase indexing works and where its limits lie
  • Referencing files, folders, symbols, documentation and web sources precisely
  • Using ignore files to exclude sensitive or irrelevant content
  • Avoiding overlong chats and restarting tasks with fresh context
Module 3 Rules for consistent team results
  • Creating and versioning project rules and scoping them by file pattern
  • Expressing architecture, style and testing conventions as effective rules
  • Separating user rules from team rules
  • Refining rules iteratively based on the agent’s typical mistakes
Module 4 Agent mode in practice
  • Building features step by step with plan, implementation and tests
  • Running multi-file refactorings safely with checkpoints
  • Approving terminal commands deliberately and feeding error output back
  • Connecting MCP servers for issue trackers, databases or browser testing

Day 2

Module 5 Background agents, review and governance
  • Delegating tasks to background agents and running them in parallel
  • Reviewing results as branches or pull requests and steering follow-ups
  • Using AI-assisted code review alongside human review
  • Addressing security risks, secrets and licensing in enterprise use
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 program regularly in at least one language and are familiar with Git and an IDE such as VS Code. 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 Cursor, Git and your usual development environment installed; a Cursor account with access to agent features is recommended.

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.

  • Thu, 26 November 2026 – Fri, 27 November 2026 Online Request
  • Wed, 9 December 2026 – Thu, 10 December 2026 Stuttgart Request
  • Wed, 13 January 2027 – Thu, 14 January 2027 Online Request
  • Mon, 25 January 2027 – Tue, 26 January 2027 Berlin Request
  • Mon, 1 February 2027 – Tue, 2 February 2027 Online Request
  • Wed, 10 February 2027 – Thu, 11 February 2027 Munich Request

Frequently asked questions

Do I need prior VS Code experience to use Cursor?

It helps, but it is not essential. Cursor is built on VS Code, so navigation, shortcuts and extensions feel familiar and existing settings can be imported. If you currently work with JetBrains IDEs or other editors, a short introduction during the course gets you up to speed quickly so you can concentrate on the AI features.

How do I prevent confidential code from reaching third parties?

Cursor offers a privacy mode and organisation settings that restrict how code is stored by the provider. You can also use ignore files to exclude sensitive areas from indexing and context. In the course we discuss how to align these options with internal policies, data protection requirements and sound handling of secrets.

What do rules add compared with well-written prompts?

A prompt applies to one request only, whereas rules persist and apply to the whole team. They capture architectural decisions, preferred libraries, testing strategies and style guidelines, so nobody has to repeat that information and the agent produces code that fits your codebase. Rules are versioned with the project and evolve together with it.

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 “Cursor 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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