UI tests are important. They do not only test if information is shown correctly, or certain UI controls are visible. They test if the UI of an app does work. Therefore, UI tests must be defined by the end user. UI tests are so important, that UI tests should not Read more…
Does this sound familiar? An app was developed, tested, and made available in production. And then: the users complain that the app is not working. The app however passes all tests. How can this be? And how can this be solved? Testing is like the holy grail in software development. Read more…
Updating SAPUI5 should not introduce breaking changes. UI5 uses semantic versioning, and as long as the major release does not change, you should be safe: update UI5, and get automatically the latest features, while your old apps continue to work. The app might drift away further and further from the Read more…
A few months ago I came across a productive UI5 app that was also promoted on several channels and events. The interesting thing – to me – about this app was the usage of Web Components. On a YouTube video the architecture of the app was shared which allowed me Read more…
On the horizon changes are manifesting. And these will turn UI5 development into a rather obsolete skill. For many developers, freestyle UI5 development is the preferred approach to create a new UI5 app. It is a popular choice among UI5 developers for several reasons. First, freestyle UI5 development is the Read more…
Developing UI5 apps means that sooner or later you’ll have to debug them. If you are in the local development phase this is easy. The UI5 files loaded by the browser are the same as the ones in your IDE. This changes after a deploy to the Fiori Launchpad. Then Read more…
SAP decided once to offer UI5 on a CDN. This is like many other JavaScript libraries are offered too. Compared to hosting the library on some web server, a CDN distributes the files globally and tries to offer them closely to the end user. JQuery for instance offers all versions Read more…
The annual conference about UI5 took place again this year. This is the most important event for developers working with UI5: SAPUI5, OpenUI5 or SAP Fiori. This year edition was again after 2020 and 2021 an online event, with an additional audience of 100 people on-site in building ROT03 in Read more…
After SAP decided last year on their own to not only moving away from their mobile hybrid SDK Kapsel, but to also end the Fiori Mobile Client (FMC), their mobile customers were not profusely grateful. While for FMC, SAP moved away from their decision and considered customer demands, the problem Read more…
Recently I developed a standalone OpenUI5 app. An app that is accessed without a Fiori Launchpad and has its own index.html on the web server. Of course, I develop the app using a pipeline. And of course, one of the steps is to get the source code analyzed for issues. Read more…