UI5 NewsCast

SAP integrated and developed several testing frameworks to test UI5 applications, libraries, controls or modules: QUnit for functional testing, OPA5 to do integration testing and UIveri5 for end-to-end testing. In 2020, wdi5 (pronounced as /vdiai5/) has been started by Volker Buzek at j&s-soft with the focus to test UI5 web apps in hybrid scenarios – the scenarios which aren’t supported by UIveri5. Beginning of 2022, UIveri5 got deprecated mainly due to technical reasons and a successor was needed. SAP started sponsoring the wdi5 project of j&s-soft to establish it as UI5s open-source end-to-end testing framework. In this podcast, Christoph talks with Volker, Hristo and Peter about the testing options of UI5, the history and the now, how wdi5 should be handed over into the responsibility of the UI5 community, migration steps from UIveri5 to wdi5, technical insights into wdi5 and the open gaps and next steps.
Tune in and learn about the history, getting started, migration and the future direction of UI5 testing.

Todays guests:

Volker Buzek, IT-Architect at j&s-soft GmbH and inventor of wdi5
Hristo Manchev, Product Owner for UI5 test automation tools at SAP
Peter Muessig, Chief Architect of SAPUI5 at SAP

Links:

Documentation:

• wdi5 documentation

Related Blog Posts:

• State of UI5 testing in 2020
• Using WDIO and WDI5 for testing UI5 apps
• The king is dead – long live the king: wdi5 as UIVeri5 successor
• wdi5 – release stae of things, outlook
• More SAP Community blogs related to wdi5

GitHub:

• wdi5 on GitHub
• UI5 Community on GitHub

Events:

• UI5con HYBRID 2022