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ABAP Review

Evaluation techniques that inspectors use to verify if the ABAP design and code conform to MIT's Development Standards and Developer's Checklist. See Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) and Inspectors.

Accessibility

The ability to use a product, even when the user is physically disabled or functioning under constraints. Accessibility tries to address the range of physical constraints of the user that could limit the ability to use software, such as blindness or limited use of hands, and device limitations such as operating an autoPC with limited use of hands and eyes. More information about accessibility is available at the following web pages.
http://web.mit.edu/atic/www/sw/
http://uahci.ics.forth.gr/html/sig.html

Action Log

Workbook of SAP infrastructure, environment and/or client configurations, and tasks necessary to establish a functional application system after a system refresh, database copy, or application update.

Adaptive Menu

A menu where the most recently used transactions are shown at the top of the screen so that the user can repeat common commands quickly without searching for them in long menus.

Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP)

The programming language developed by SAP in which all SAP applications are written.

Alias

An SAP authorization profile copied from a person in an MIT department, lab, or center (DLC) and appended to a software developer's profile in the SAP development or test environment. An alias is more limited in scope than a standard developer's authorization profile and permits more effective testing of authorizations and workflows.

Audit

An independent review of a software process or practice used to assess compliance with development requirements, standards, specifications and procedures.