Advanced Business Application Programming Workbench (ABAP Workbench) is an integrated development environment provided by SAP for the development of enterprise resource management applications running in the R/3 subsystem. ABAP Workbench contains various tools used to design, implement, debug and profile ABAP programs. ABAP refers to the service advertising protocol's (SAP) high-level programming language. It originally stood for Allgemeiner Berichts-Aufbereitungs-Prozessor, which is German for general report creation processor.
ABAP Workbench contains different ABAP program tools that support the development and modification of ABAP-written R/3 client/server applications. Using these tools, one can write and modify ABAP programs, design screens and create a user interface. These tools can also test and debug an application for efficiency.

Important ABAP Workbench tools include:
  • ABAP editor for editing and writing reports
  • ABAP dictionary for processing database table definitions
  • Menu painter for designing the application’s user interface
  • Screen painter for designing screens and logic flow
  • Function builder for creating function modules
  • Class builder for ABAP object classes and interfaces