Book Image

Learning Robotic Process Automation

By : Alok Mani Tripathi
Book Image

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)

Avoiding typical failure points

There are many scenarios where the normal implementation would fail. We are going to discuss these failure points and will see how to tackle them.

In this section, we will work with the following entities to tackle failure points:

  • Selectors
  • Scope of the variable
  • Delay
  • Element Exists
  • Try / Catch
  • toString method

Selectors

Sometimes, it is tedious to deal with selectors while working with them. This is because a selector has attributes, title, and class properties. When we select a UI element using the selector, it stores all these properties. Different instances of an application may have different properties of a UI element.

The problem with selectors is when you select a UI element, it captures...