Best Hits of ABAPConf 2024

In December, ABAPConf was back online, with full day ABAP fest broadcast over 3 channels at the same time. The recordings (comments and all) are posted on YouTube as 3 long videos. This is not the easiest format to navigate but the “best hits” links below will take you directly to the specific session start time.

• Unit testing has been a tough sell in the ABAP world. But this doesn’t stop people like Martin Jonen . His Unit Test your Business Objects in RAP session was quite well done and might actually convert a few heathens.
• Marc Bernard talked about his passion project apm (ABAP package manager). It’s not about the ABAP packages you’re probably thinking of but more like the software package concept that exists in other languages. Some pretty interesting ideas there.
• You might remember SAP Mentor Robert Eijpe as RAP vs CAP blog author mentioned in my old story. This time Robert recruited Octavian Mihail Savu to talk about Lessons learned building a product on clean core ABAP on S/4HANA public cloud. I love these sessions since they talk about warts and all, things you will only hear hush-hush or run into yourself. Some lessons made me face-palm so bad.
• Aspiring cool hackers should watch Secure custom SAP development presented by Ivan Mans . It’s a rare “wait, we could do that?” type of session.

Special shout-out to Domi Bigl who did a fantastic job as Channel 2 host! And a tip of the head to the closing key note called The Modern SAP Full-stack Developer: the irony that “full stack” was presented by different people didn’t go unnoticed. :) JP

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