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Robotic Process Automation Projects

By : Nandan Mullakara, Arun Kumar Asokan
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Robotic Process Automation Projects

By: Nandan Mullakara, Arun Kumar Asokan

Overview of this book

Robotic Process automation helps businesses to automate monotonous tasks that can be performed by machines. This project-based guide will help you progress through easy to more advanced RPA projects. You’ll learn the principles of RPA and how to architect solutions to meet the demands of business automation, along with exploring the most popular RPA tools - UiPath and Automation Anywhere. In the first part, you’ll learn how to use UiPath by building a simple helpdesk ticket system. You’ll then automate CRM systems by integrating Excel data with UiPath. After this, the book will guide you through building an AI-based social media moderator using Google Cloud Vision API. In the second part, you’ll learn about Automation Anywhere's latest Cloud RPA platform (A2019) by creating projects such as an automated ERP administration system, an AI bot for order and invoice processing, and an automated emergency notification system for employees. Later, you’ll get hands-on with advanced RPA tasks such as invoking APIs, before covering complex concepts such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning in automation to take your understanding of RPA to the next level. By the end of the book, you’ll have a solid foundation in RPA with experience in building real-world projects.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Unit testing the Child bot

This is an optional step before we build the Parent bot. We can unit test the Child bot and check if it is sending the messages as intended. To do so, follow these steps:

  1. Let's add two log messages so that we can check whether the bot sent the message successfully or not. We will add these within the If and If Else conditions we added in the previous section. Add two Log to file actions and point them to a text file. This is where we'll be storing log messages. Your log messages can be in one of the following formats: 
    • For success (Within an If condition): $System:Machine$ - INFO - Message Successfully sent by Child Bot
    • For failure (Within an If Else condition): $System:Machine$ - INFO - Message send failed in Child Bot:

  1. Next, go ahead and Run the Child bot from the top menu. The A2019 Control Room should appear and provide you with input boxes, as shown in the following screenshot. Provide your values from the Twilio...