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…
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…
I recently got a new company laptop. While this is generally great news, it means to go through a lot of configurations to adopt the standard image to my needs. One thing I noticed was that after installing a local http server, that Chrome won’t connect to http://localhost:8080, but instead Read more…
I was preparing a demo showing how to visualize data from an IoT service using SAP UI5 VisFrame charts. To play around with VizFrame, I used the sample from SAPUI5 SDK. It was working perfectly on the online version, but while running the UI5 app and Chrome, I got an Read more…
Working with HTML5 and a lot with SAP means that sooner or later I will have to delete cookies. CTRL+SHIFT+N helps, but from time to time my cookies in normal browser mode are a total mess. When I used to use Firefox for web development, I had Firebug and plugins Read more…