Short version: Delete Xcode command line tools and reinstall them. Scenario Problem: For a NPM package the dependencies should be installed. NPM install command is run and suddenly fails with an error caused by node-gyp. Command: npm install Output: Error message: Fatal error: ‘memory’ file not found Result: npm install 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…
Eclipse Theia is a modern cloud and desktop IDE platform. It allows you to build your own IDE application. What Theia offers is not a ready-to-run IDE, but a platform to build an IDE for desktop or cloud that can be adopted to match your personal or company requirements. In Read more…
When you try to develop a Fiori app with the SAP Fiori tools for VS Code you get the error “btoa is not defined”. This error is caused by another SAP extension: mobile Development Kit extension for Visual Studio Code. You have to disable the MDK extension to be able Read more…
Scenario Cordova is used as the de-facto standard software for creating hybrid mobile apps. To keep up with mobile platforms, a new version of Cordova is released constantly. This creates a certain challenge for mobile app developers that have to not only create new apps, but also have to maintain Read more…
After meeting the pre-requirements for BUILD, it is time to actually install BUILD. The steps are outlined at SAP BUILD GitHub page. There a 4 steps: Get the tool Install required node modules Initialize the db Start the app Be sure to have followed the steps outlined in the pre-requisites Read more…
SAP showed a demo of BUILD at its TechEd keynote at Las Vegas. The 1st time I tried to install BUILD on my laptop was shortly after it was launched and I was still in the hospital; and I failed getting it working. Afterwards I mainly interacted with BUILD using Read more…