VTU - 21CS744 ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
Lecture Notes
Prof. Parthasarathy P V
(M) +91 8951523822 (E-mail): sarathy.amc@gmail.com
Module-1
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Chapter 1: RPA Foundations: What is RPA – Flavors of RPA- History of RPA - The Benefits of RPA - The downsides of RPA- RPA Compared to BPO, BPM and BPA – Consumer Willingness for Automation - The Workforce of the Future. |
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| Chapter 2: RPA Skills : On-Premise Vs. the Cloud- Web Technology- Programming Languages and Low Code - OCR-Databases-APIs- AI-Cognitive Automation-Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Waterfall0 DevOps- Flowcharts.. | Study Material |
Module-2
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Chapter 1: RPA Platforms: - Components of RPA- RPA Platforms-About Ui Path- About UiPath - The future of automation. |
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| Chapter 2: Record and Play : Downloading and installing UiPath Studio -Learning Ui Path Studio - Task recorder - Step-by-step examples using the recorder. . | Study Material |
Module-3
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| Chapter 3: Sequence, Flowchart, and Control Flow: Sequencing the workflow-Activities-Control flow, various types of loops, and decision making -Step-by-step example using Sequence and Flowchart-Step-by-step example using Sequence and Control flow. | Study Material |
| Chapter 4: Data Manipulation: Variables and Scope-Collections Arguments – Purpose and use-Data table usage with examples - Clipboard management-File operation with step-by-step example-CSV/Excel to data table and vice versa (with a step-by-step example).. | Study Material |
Module-4
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| Chapter 5: Taking Control of the Controls : Finding and attaching windows- Finding the control- Techniques for waiting for a control - Act on controls – mouse and keyboard activities- Working with UiExplorerHandling events- Revisit recorder - Screen Scraping- When to use OCR- Types of OCR available- How to use OCR- Avoiding typical failure points. | Study Material |
Module-5
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| Chapter 8: Exception Handling, Debugging, and Logging- Exception handlingr : Common exceptions and ways to handle them- Logging and taking screensHOT - Debugging techniques- Collecting crash dumps- Error reporting. |
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| Textbook 1 - Chapter 13: - Future of RPA | Study Material |