Chapter 1: Creating Custom Code

Question 1

SAP systems can be enhanced in 5 ways

Answer 1

Customizing 
Personalization
Modification 
Enhancement
Custom Development

Question 2

Customizing

Answer 2

Specific business and functional process configuration according to the implementation guide.

Question 3

Personalization

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Setting up global attributes to display certain fields

Question 4

Modification

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Changes SAP repository objects make at the client side.

Question 5

Enhancement

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Creating a repository object inside a standard SAP program

Question 6

Custom development

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Creating objects that are unique to the client repository

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Design thinking

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A method of problem-solving. Multi-staged division of tasks.

Question 8

5 steps of design-thinking

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Empathy
Define the problem
Ideas
Prototypes
Tests

Question 9

Empathy

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The needs of the group must be known

Question 10

Define the problem

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We need to define the exact problem to be solve

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Ideas

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The stage consists of creating as many ideas as possible for solutions relating to the previously defined problem.

Question 12

Prototypes

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Make a preliminary visualization of the idea

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Tests

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Product tested in a real environment

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BDUF/LDUF

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Big design up front, little design up front

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LDUF

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The process of modeling a small subsystem before coding

Question 16

BDUF

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Modeling system where the whole system needs to be modeled before implementation.

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2 categories of BDUF

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• A document of high-level architecture, which determines the key features of architecture
• General documentation describes everything from high-level architecture to the smallest detail of the system

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Aspects of LDUF

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• Highly informal
• Code is crated in small subsystem
• Not prescriptive

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Aspects BDUF

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• Hard and expensive
• Needs big team
• Perspective

Question 20

2 areas of software quality

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• How it complies with functional requirements—whether the product does what it is supposed to
• How it meets the non-functional requirements—whether it reaches the goals in the right way

Question 21

Goal question metric(GQM)
Balanced scoreboard(BS)
Practical software Measurement(PSM)

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Models and methods for measuring objectives

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Understandability

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Both the code and all the documentation should be readable by peers

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Conciseness

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Code should be kept small, and also not process unnecessary data

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Consistency

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The software should follow the notation conventions present in the system

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Maintainability

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Well documented and not complex to allow for future updates

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Testability

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Software written in a way that allows tests to check its correctness and performance

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Reliability

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The code should behave properly in all conditions

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Security

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Should consider preventive measures to avoid unauthorized access to important data

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Additional factors

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* Intuitiveness * Ease of use * Sensibleness of messages, errors * Responsiveness of the interface

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Ground rules for UI design

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* Use written words * Use the user’s language * Use consistent terminology

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Psychological principles for screens

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* The effect of proximity * The effect of similarity * The effect of closure * The effect of continuity

Question 32

Designing services

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* Keep services singular-task oriented * Avoid direct database manipulation in services * Expect, but check * Provide consistent and explanatory responses * Keep the service well documented * Keep the service interface unchanged