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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)

Exception Handling, Debugging, and Logging

Sometimes, automation program may fail to execute. To deal with such cases, we use exception handling activities. In this chapter, we start with the various types of exception handling method available in UiPath, the exceptions that you may encounter, and how to deal with them. We will also learn about logging. An important topic covered in this chapter is debugging to check whether workflows are working properly or not and to rectify any errors.

Before we begin, let us look at the topics that will be covered in this chapter:

  • Exception handling
  • Common exceptions and ways to handle them
  • Logging and taking screenshots
  • Debugging techniques
  • Collecting crash dumps
  • Error reporting