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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)

Debugging techniques

There are various techniques provided by UiPath Studio for debugging in order to check whether the workflow is running successfully or to find out errors in order to rectify them. At the top of the UiPath window, we can see various available methods of debugging inside the EXECUTE block, as shown in the following screenshot:

As shown in the preceding screenshot, there are various techniques for debugging. They are:

  • Setting breakpoints
  • Slow step
  • Highlighting
  • Break

Setting breakpoints

While debugging a workflow, we can set breakpoints in between if we want to run the program up to a specific location. This is useful when we have to stop before an activity ends completely. In such a case, we should use...