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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)

Project organization

While working on any automation project, it is very important to work with a proper set of rules so that the project can be organized in an efficient way. In UiPath, the following are some of the best practices considered while working on a project:

  • Pick an appropriate layout for each workflow
  • Break the whole process into smaller parts
  • Use exception handling
  • Make your workflow readable
  • Keep it clean

We will now elaborate on each of the best practices.

Picking an appropriate layout for each workflow

There are various layouts available while creating a new project. Among those layouts, we have to choose the best option on the basis of the type of automation process we are undertaking. All the layouts...