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RPA Solution Architect's Handbook

By : Sachin Sahgal
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RPA Solution Architect's Handbook

By: Sachin Sahgal

Overview of this book

RPA solution architects play an important role in the automation journey and initiatives within the organization. However, the implementation process is quite complex and daunting at times. RPA Solution Architect’s Handbook is a playbook for solution architects looking to build well-designed and scalable RPA solutions. You’ll begin by understanding the different roles, responsibilities, and interactions between cross-functional teams. Then, you’ll learn about the pillars of a good design: stability, maintainability, scalability, and resilience, helping you develop a process design document, solution design document, SIT/UAT scripts, and wireframes. You’ll also learn how to design reusable components for faster, cheaper, and better RPA implementation, and design and develop best practices for module decoupling, handling garbage collection, and exception handling. At the end of the book, you’ll explore the concepts of privacy, security, reporting automated processes, analytics, and taking preventive action to keep the bots healthy. By the end of this book, you’ll be well equipped to undertake a complete RPA process from design to implementation efficiently.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Part 1:Role of a Solution Architect
5
Part 2:Being Techno/Functional
11
Part 3: Tool Agnostic Approach
17
Part 4:Best Practices
22
Epilogue

Development standards

One of the key responsibilities of an SA is to guide and equip the development team with best practices and industry standards for development. Code can be written in any form and structure and will still work, but having predefined standards and procedures helps in maintaining the code in the long run. It also helps in enhancing the performance of the automation.

Let’s review some of the development best practices and industry standards for development:

  • Naming conventions: In the development of any software, variables play a key role in storing and managing data within the code. Providing proper names and following a naming convention is key to having clean and readable code.

Naming conventions can be lower camel case, such as fullName, or upper camel case, such as FullName. It depends on what to define as standard. This can further be standardized by giving structure to it, such as adding _ or $ characters to a variable.

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