2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/114286Chu has recently shown that the Abel lemma on summations by parts can serve as the underlying relation for Bailey's ${}_6ψ_6$ bilateral summation formula. In other words, the Abel lemma spells out the telescoping nature of the ${}_6ψ_6$ sum. We present a systematic approach to compute Abel pairs for bilateral and unilateral basic hypergeometric summation formulas by using the $q$-Gosper algorithm. It is demonstrated that Abel pairs can be derived from Gosper pairs. This approach applies to many classical summation formulas.17 pagesCombinatoricsClassical Analysis and ODEsThe Abel Lemma and the q-Gosper Algorithmtext