Your task is to adapt a standard Fiori app. You want to use BAS for this, although this is now also possible in VS Code. For the problem and solution presented here, this does not make a difference. After going through the wizard to create the adaption project, you open Read more…
Adding data to a custom table is a common task. Data should be transported into production instead of letting the customer insert it there directly. For the “old” SAP ERP world there is the table maintenance tool. This tool is also available in S/4HANA on premise / private cloud. In Read more…
In my blog posts about UI testing I explained the benefits of UI testing and how tests can be recorded by the end user. The benefit is clear: capturing the interactions directly from a user of the app. These UI tests can serve as input for visual regression tests. Test Read more…
Visual regression testing checks if the UI was affected by a change. It allows to identify changes that affect the visual representation of the app. These kinds of changes have a huge impact on the perception of the app to the end user. Worse: these errors might not be detected 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…
In January 2023 I gave a presentation about SAP Fiori and how it is used at my employer at a DSAG UI meeting. I talked about a wide range of topics that I have to deal with on a daily basis. Throughout the last months, I received positive feedback on Read more…
WordPress is one of the most popular CMS systems. It is easy to use, can be run in the cloud or on premise, and offers a wide range of plugins and themes. WordPress is available for almost 20 years. It has a huge community and allows to run a web Read more…
In the first part of this small series I described how I found an “internal” page from SAP: the SAP Help Portal status page. Intended to be accessible to everyone, the layout made it appear to be for internal and authenticated access only. While this was solved rather quickly, SAP Read more…
SAP’s Business Application Studio is based on Theia. Several plugins for Fiori development are released by SAP to the VS Code marketplace. This means that it is possible to use these in Eclipse Theia. As written previously, this is only technically possible, as the VS Code marketplace TOU does not Read more…
SAP decided to pull the plug on the hybrid SDK Kapsel for their mobile platform (on premise and cloud). You could see that this would come since 2018, when SAP reduced the support cycles for Kapsel to 2 years. While version 3.0 was supported for 5 years, since then it Read more…