This document outlines a course on robotic process automation design and development. The course is divided into 5 units that cover programming basics, RPA tools and concepts, control flow and data manipulation, UI automation and selectors, and error handling. Students will learn about variables, algorithms, software development lifecycles, automation benefits and types of robots. They will also learn how to work with control structures, string and data manipulations, recording user interactions, and handling errors and exceptions. The course aims to help students understand basic programming, describe where RPA can be applied and implemented, and identify automation of images, text, and data tables.
This document outlines a course on robotic process automation design and development. The course is divided into 5 units that cover programming basics, RPA tools and concepts, control flow and data manipulation, UI automation and selectors, and error handling. Students will learn about variables, algorithms, software development lifecycles, automation benefits and types of robots. They will also learn how to work with control structures, string and data manipulations, recording user interactions, and handling errors and exceptions. The course aims to help students understand basic programming, describe where RPA can be applied and implemented, and identify automation of images, text, and data tables.
This document outlines a course on robotic process automation design and development. The course is divided into 5 units that cover programming basics, RPA tools and concepts, control flow and data manipulation, UI automation and selectors, and error handling. Students will learn about variables, algorithms, software development lifecycles, automation benefits and types of robots. They will also learn how to work with control structures, string and data manipulations, recording user interactions, and handling errors and exceptions. The course aims to help students understand basic programming, describe where RPA can be applied and implemented, and identify automation of images, text, and data tables.
This document outlines a course on robotic process automation design and development. The course is divided into 5 units that cover programming basics, RPA tools and concepts, control flow and data manipulation, UI automation and selectors, and error handling. Students will learn about variables, algorithms, software development lifecycles, automation benefits and types of robots. They will also learn how to work with control structures, string and data manipulations, recording user interactions, and handling errors and exceptions. The course aims to help students understand basic programming, describe where RPA can be applied and implemented, and identify automation of images, text, and data tables.
Prerequisites: Nil Contact Hours: 42 Course Coordinator/s: Ganeshayya I Shidaganti
Course Contents:
UNIT I
PROGRAMMING BASICS: Introduction to Programming, Data and Data Structure,
Algorithms, Variables and Arguments, Software Application and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Frameworks and Languages AUTOMATION AND RPA: History of Automation, Automation and its benefits, Introduction to RPA, Automation vs RPA, Process and Flowchart ,RPA Programming Constructs, Robots in RPA, Introduction to Robots, Types of Robots, Benefits and Implementation of RPA UNIT II
RPA TOOL INTRUDUCTION AND BASICS: RPA Development Life Cycle, How does RPA Work, Challenges in RPA, Variables and Types of Variables, Variables vs. Arguments, Namespaces, and Importing New Namespace. CONTROL FLOW ACTIVITY: Sequences, Control Flow and its types, Decision control-IF, Switch, IF vs Switch, Loops-Do While, While, For each, Other control flow activities - Delay, Break, Assign, Continue and Parallel
UNIT III
DATA MANIPULATION: Data Manipulation and Its Importance, String Manipulations, Data Table Manipulations, Collection, Its Types and Manipulations. UI AUTOMATION & SELECTORS: UI interactions, Input actions and Input methods, Containers, Recording & its types, Selectors, Types of Selectors- Full and Partial, Containers and Partial Selectors, Dynamic Selectors
UNIT IV
AUTOMATION CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES: Desktop and Web Recording,
Extraction and its techniques- Screen scraping, Data scraping and PDF Extraction. Automation Techniques- Workbook and Excel automation (read/write). EMAIL AUTOMATION: Incoming Email automation - Sending Email automation
Unit V
ERROR AND EXCEPTION HANDLING: Errors, Error handling approach, Try Catch, Retry Scope, Exception Handling, Types of Exceptions, Global Exception Handler, Best Practice for Error Handling ORCHESTRATOR: Overview, Orchestrator Functionalities, Orchestrator User Interface- Automations, Management and Monitoring
Text Books:
1. Alok Mani Tripathi, Learning Robotic Process Automation, Publisher: Packt Publishing Release Date: March 2018 ISBN: 9781788470940.
Reference Book:
1. Frank Casale (Author), Rebecca Dilla (Author), Heidi Jaynes (Author), Lauren Livingston (Author), Introduction to Robotic Process Automation: a Primer, Institute of Robotic Process Automation. 2. Richard Murdoch, Robotic Process Automation: Guide To Building Software Robots, Automate Repetitive Tasks & Become An RPA Consultant 3. Srikanth Merianda,Robotic Process Automation Tools, Process Automation and their benefits: Understanding RPA and Intelligent Automation 4. https://www.uipath.com/rpa/robotic-process-automation
Course Outcomes (COs):
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
1. Understand Basic Programming concepts and the underlying logic/structure (PO-2, 3, 4, 5, PSO-2) 2. Describe RPA, where it can be applied and how it’s implemented. (PO-1, 2, 4, PSO-2) 3. Describe the different types of variables, Control Flow and data manipulation techniques(PO-1, 2, 4, PSO-2) 4. Identify and understand Image, Text and Data Tables Automation (PO-2,3,4,5, PSO-2) 5. Describe automation to Email and various types of Exceptions and strategies to handle(PO-3, PO-4, PSO-2)
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