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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)

Common exceptions and ways to handle them

Implementing exception handling enables the robot to work in every possible situation and tackle any exception that may arise. There are some common exceptions that we usually face while working on UiPath.

Unavailability of UI element

When working on UiPath, especially on the web, we may encounter this type of error. This is because the UI element was not found due to the dynamic behavior of the web page. To handle this exception, we have to make changes in the selector attributes or we have to add new attributes to the selector so that the UI element can be easily found. For example, if we have a variable which is dynamically changing, we can use a wildcard so that it can be easily...