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Learning Robotic Process Automation

By : Alok Mani Tripathi
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Learning Robotic Process Automation

By: Alok Mani Tripathi

Overview of this book

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) enables automating business processes using software robots. Software robots interpret, trigger responses, and communicate with other systems just like humans do. Robotic processes and intelligent automation tools can help businesses improve the effectiveness of services faster and at a lower cost than current methods. This book is the perfect start to your automation journey, with a special focus on one of the most popular RPA tools: UiPath. Learning Robotic Process Automation takes you on a journey from understanding the basics of RPA to advanced implementation techniques. You will become familiar with the UiPath interface and learn about its workflow. Once you are familiar with the environment, we will get hands-on with automating applications such as Excel, SAP, Windows and web applications, screen and web scraping, working with user events, and we'll cover exceptions and debugging. By the end of the book, you'll not only be able to build your first software robot, but you'll also wire it up to perform various automation tasks with the help of best practices for robot deployment.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Managing and Maintaining the Code

Just creating an automation project is not enough. It is important to have your project organized in a proper way—whether it is deciding which layout to use, or naming your steps properly. A project can also be reused in a new one, making it very convenient for the user. This chapter explains ways in which we can reuse projects. We will also learn about configuration techniques and see an example. Finally, we will learn how to integrate the TFS server.

Listed are the topics that will be covered in this chapter:

  • Project organization
  • Nesting workflows
  • Reusability of workflows
  • Commenting techniques
  • Sate Machine
  • When to use Flowchart, State Machine, or Sequence
  • Using config files and examples of config files
  • Integrating the TFS server