5 posts tagged with "Playwright"

Your SAP landscape has 200+ Fiori apps, quarterly transport cycles that break tests, and a test automation backlog measured in person-years. You have heard the pitch: AI-first test automation for SAP UI5. But before committing budget, headcount, and political capital, you need proof.

This guide is the POC playbook. It covers the 9 hardest scenarios that separate SAP test automation tools from SAP test automation solutions — and gives you exact steps, agent commands, code, and scoring criteria to evaluate Playwright-Praman in your own landscape.

Praman ships two variants of its SAP test agents: MCP agents that communicate through a WebSocket-based MCP server, and CLI agents that use playwright-cli over stdin/stdout. This post walks through the CLI variant end-to-end, based on a real session testing a "Maintain Bill of Material (Version 2)" app on SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The session required 8 iterations to get a passing test, and the debugging process revealed important patterns around FLP navigation, dialog handling, and V4 Fiori Elements ID structures that apply to any SAP testing project.

Testing SAP S/4HANA and Fiori apps at enterprise scale requires more than a browser automation library. You need UI5-aware selectors, authentication handling, OData support, and — increasingly — agentic AI workflows that can plan, generate, and self-heal tests. Four open source solutions tackle this problem from different angles.

This post compares playwright-ui5, playwright-sap, wdi5, and playwright-praman side by side. No marketing. Just what each tool actually does, where it falls short, and which one fits your situation.

Legend: ✓ = Full support | ✓+ = Enhanced/extra features | ⚠ = Partial/limited | ✗ = Not supported

A structured, prompt-engineered template for AI agents to automate the complete SAP Sales Order lifecycle — from order creation through delivery, picking, goods issue, and billing — using Praman fixtures and OData-first selectors.

SAP UI5 applications break conventional Playwright selectors. Control IDs are generated, DOM structures change across UI5 versions, and themes swap entire subtrees. playwright-praman solves this by querying the UI5 runtime control registry directly — tests survive upgrades, theme changes, and custom CSS without maintenance.