Project „Kernseife“ (Curd Soap)

As organizations accelerate digital transformation and cloud adoption, maintaining secure, scalable, and upgrade-ready SAP environments has become a strategic priority. The Clean Core paradigm addresses this challenge by separating custom developments from the SAP standard, enabling greater flexibility, lower maintenance effort, and smoother innovation cycles. 

This white paper explores the role of the ABAP Test Cockpit as a central quality assurance platform and explains how static code analysis, security validation, and Clean Core assessments can be integrated into modern development processes. It examines key SAP standard checks, including the Code Vulnerability Analyzer (CVA), Cloud Readiness assessments, and Clean Core compliance checks, as well as complementary open-source tools such as Project Kernseife, Cloudification Repository, and Code Pal. 

Through practical use cases, the paper demonstrates how organizations can improve software quality, strengthen security, reduce technical debt, and prepare their SAP landscapes for future technology shifts and cloud-based transformation initiatives.