Academy · AI for SAP Testing & Quality · 200 Practitioner
Claude Code for SAP Testing: What It Does Well, Where It Breaks, and When to Use a Platform
A practitioner's guide to using Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool, in SAP testing. Learn the high-value uses (test design, data plans, triage, OData checks, change impact, ABAP Unit drafts), try Claude Code with Playwright on a public SAPUI5 app, weigh the limits for SAP GUI, Fiori, evidence, security and cost, and see why a test platform is the more sustainable home for a regression suite, with ACCELQ as the worked example.
- 88 minutes
- 7 lessons + quiz
- Test Automation Engineer, Test Lead / Test Manager, Tester / Test Analyst, Program / PMO Lead
Start the course
- 01Where AI coding agents fit in SAP testing9 min
- 02High-value uses: from specs to checks11 min
- 03Try it: Claude Code and Playwright on the UI5 Shopping Cart9 min
- 04The limits for SAP: a balanced view10 min
- 05Why a platform is more sustainable: ACCELQ as the worked example17 min
- 06Using both: Claude Code as an assistant around the platform16 min
- 07Decision and rollout: pilot, metrics and sign-off16 min
- QZCourse quiz12 questions
What you’ll be able to do
- Explain where an AI coding agent such as Claude Code fits in an SAP test process, and where it does not
- Apply Claude Code to high-value SAP testing tasks with structured prompts, a CLAUDE.md and permission controls
- Build and critique a Claude Code and Playwright check on a UI5 app, identifying the sources of brittleness
- Evaluate the limits of a code-first approach for SAP: reach, nondeterminism, maintenance, data, security and evidence
- Compare a code-first approach with a codeless test platform on ownership, evidence and 3–5-year cost
- Design guardrails, CI integration and a pilot with metrics and sign-off criteria for combining Claude Code with a platform
Sources and further reading
- Claude Code overview · Anthropic
- How Claude remembers your project (CLAUDE.md) · Anthropic
- Configure permissions · Anthropic
- Automate actions with hooks · Anthropic
- Run Claude Code programmatically · Anthropic
- Claude Code data usage · Anthropic
- Claude Code security · Anthropic
- Connect Claude Code to tools via MCP · Anthropic
- Playwright MCP server · Microsoft (GitHub)
- Auto-waiting (actionability checks) · Playwright
- Locators · Playwright
- Frames · Playwright
- Trace viewer · Playwright
- Playwright Test Agents · Playwright
- ID Handling in SAPUI5: The Complete Guide · SAP (SAPUI5 documentation, SAP-docs on GitHub)
- Integration Testing with One Page Acceptance Tests (OPA5) · SAP (SAPUI5 documentation, SAP-docs on GitHub)
- Test Recorder · SAP (SAPUI5 documentation, SAP-docs on GitHub)
- ITS Implementation Models (SAP GUI for HTML) · SAP Help Portal
- KBA 3193607: SAP GUI for HTML and Web Dynpro Tiles on FLP - Troubleshooting Guide · SAP Support
- Navigating Release Upgrades (SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition) · SAP Learning
- Navigating Release Upgrades (SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition) · SAP Learning
- With Agentic AI, ABAP Takes Evolution to the Next Level · SAP News Center
- SAP API Policy (overview presentation, May 2026) · SAP SE (SAP user groups)
- Understanding the Seven Migration and Modernization Assistants · SAP Learning
- LLM01:2025 Prompt Injection · OWASP GenAI Security Project
- 21 CFR 11.10 Controls for closed systems · Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
- Computer Software Assurance for Production and Quality System Software (notice of availability) · U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Federal Register
- SAP GUI Automation with ACCELQ · ACCELQ Help Center
- Locator-Free and Smart Locator · ACCELQ Help Center
- Self Healing: Comprehensive approach to adaptive element identification · ACCELQ Help Center
- Application Universe · ACCELQ Help Center
- REST API end-point to trigger test execution externally · ACCELQ Help Center
- SAP Test Automation (marketing page) · ACCELQ