Code Analyzer for ABL 5.8

Code Analyzer for ABL is a static analysis tool designed to help teams improve the quality, reliability, and maintainability of Progress OpenEdge ABL (4GL) code. It scans codebases to surface defects early, enforce style and architectural conventions, and provide actionable guidance that keeps legacy and modern ABL projects healthy.

Key capabilities:

• Linting and rule-based checks for common ABL pitfalls, deprecated constructs, and inconsistent coding styles
• Quality metrics such as complexity, size, and duplication to identify hotspots and prioritize refactoring
• Detection of unused variables, unreachable code, risky includes, and fragile error handling
• Performance-oriented insights, including unindexed or inefficient queries and locking best practices
• Best-practice reminders for security, such as minimizing dynamic execution and validating external inputs
• Customizable rule sets and exclusions to match your team’s standards
• Exportable reports to track trends over time and share findings with stakeholders
• CI/CD and automation-friendly workflows to gate changes and prevent regressions

Whether you’re maintaining a mature OpenEdge application or building new ABL services, Code Analyzer for ABL helps you catch issues before they reach production, streamline code reviews, and steadily raise code quality across your projects.

Code Analyzer for ABL is developed by Progress Software Corporation. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 3.0, 4.2 and 5.8.