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NelsonSousaSAP edited this page Aug 23, 2023 · 11 revisions

Description

  • The Customer Data Cloud accelerator is local development environment for SAP Customer Data Cloud
  • Enables the use of all modern tools, including modern JavaScript and real source control
  • Provides code separation, enabling best practices, unit tests and quality checks

Current  challenges

  • Hard to collaborate in feature development and poor quality assurance
  • No code quality or security validations
  • Working locally affects the online version
  • The code becomes not maintainable
  • Code written in old JavaScript with bad formatting
  • Not possible to track changes
  • The code is not testable

Benefits

  • Enables collaboration and improves quality assurance with code reviews
  • Implement code quality and security check tools with git (Sonar, Checkmarx and Mend)
  • Development without affecting online version
  • Code separation in different files
  • Supports modern JavaScript ES6 syntax and standardized automatic code formatting
  • Version control using git
  • Easily implement unit tests or e2e tests

Solution


  • Functional
    • Scripts to manage de project
    • Init: If src/ directory is empty, pulls all data from SAP Customer Data Cloud
    • Reset: Replaces src/ directory with all data from SAP Customer Data Cloud
    • Start: Creates local live preview with reload on changes
    • Test: Run test suite providing report
    • Build: Bundles the JS, CSS, HTML and JSON to build/ directory
    • Deploy: Pushes the local code to SAP Customer Data Cloud
    • Local Development: Web SDK, Screen-Sets, E-mail Templates
    • Configurations with version control: Policies, Schema, Consents

  • Technical

    • Use the SAP Customer Data Cloud REST API to pull and push code and configurations
    • Use Git for version control, code reviews and integration with quality insurance tools (Sonar, Checkmarx, Mend)
    • Provide unit and e2e code testing tools (Jest, Cypress)
    • Provide a file structure that enables code separation
    • Build tools that enable the use of modern JavaScript ES6 and bundling of the different files (Babel, Mustache and Custom scripts)
    • Provide tools for automatic code formatting (Prettier)
    • Local development with live preview (light-server)

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Recommendations

  • A large amount of SAP Customer Data Cloud projects developed by SAP have poor code quality with bad formatting. 
  • It becomes hard to maintain features developed with JavaScript that have some degree of complexity
  • It’s not possible to have version control for SAP Customer Data Cloud many configurations
  • For first release, involve customers that want to improve the code quality and organization (Nestlé, KulturPass)

More info about SAP Customer Data Cloud:  https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_CUSTOMER_DATA_CLOUD/2da86a02352940de9e0946bc7f1b4e53/4d83300f0ac949828f9604a8abb44065.html?locale=en-US&state=DRAFT


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