A simple way to increase maintainability of ABAP unit tests – with BOPF example

These two gave me very good perspectives and tools to up my unit testing game.

While the core lessons have been written about several times, I think the most important lessons are

1. Unit tests must be easy to write, read and maintain.
2. While the first test might take a while to write, the subsequent ones should take very minimal time.
3. Most important of all. The unit test must be self contained. So setting up the data (for the dependent object calls), running the code under test and verifying should be in the same unit test.

BOPF: Custom Lock/Unlock Action for Legacy DAC

1.  Objective

Objective of this document is to explain how to create custom lock/unlock action in case you are using legacy DAC. In my previous blog I have explain how to configure BOPF using Legacy tables. Refer to below link for more details on BOPF: Using Non-UUIDs (DB_KEY) keys DB tables

How to Create,Change or Check FBI Customization

Normally in FPM we have direct option to create Customization , whereas in FBI we don’t have:

Standard FBI View how it looks, there is no option to create customization

Create Fiori app using CDS with BOPF- For beginners Part 2

This blog is on continuation to  Part 1.

In this part we shall create the BOPF action and display the sale order scenario in the Fiori App using Smart Template.

For the BOPF action, go to BOPF Business Object ZDEMO_I_SALESORDER  from Tcode BOBX. Click on change mode. Under the Node Elements, traverse to node ZDEMO_I_SALESORDER and select Action element. Right Click on Action and Click “Create”.

Create Fiori app using CDS with BOPF- For beginners Part 1

Prerequisite:

1) Concepts of Core Data Services(CDS)
2) Basic Understanding of OData service
3) Concepts of BOPF
4) Conceptual knowledge of Fiori(Smart Template)

The Fiori/Ui5 is for the UI part, the CDS is for the data retrieval(code push down) while the BOPF is for handling DB activities.