Robotic Process Automation detailed syllabus for Computer Science & Design (CSD) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the CSD students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Computer Science & Design 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit CSD 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-VI scheme and its subjects refer to CSD Professional Elective-VI syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of robotic process automation is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION TO ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION
Emergence of Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Evolution of RPA, Differentiating RPA from Automation – Benefits of RPA – Application areas of RPA, Components of RPA, RPA Platforms. Robotic Process Automation Tools – Templates, User Interface, Domains in Activities, Workflow Files.
Unit II
AUTOMATION PROCESS ACTIVITIES
Sequence, Flowchart & Control Flow: Sequencing the Workflow, Activities, Flowchart, Control Flow for Decision making. Data Manipulation: Variables, Collection, Arguments, Data Table, Clipboard management, File operations Controls: Finding the control, waiting for a control, Act on a control, UiExplorer, Handling Events
Unit III
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Unit IV
EXCEPTION HANDLING AND CODE MANAGEMENT
Exception handling, Common exceptions, Logging- Debugging techniques, Collecting crash dumps, Error reporting. Code management and maintenance: Project organization, Nesting workflows, Reusability, Templates, Commenting techniques, State Machine.
Unit V
DEPLOYMENT AND MAINTENANCE
Publishing using publish utility, Orchestration Server, Control bots, Orchestration Server to deploy bots, License management, Publishing and managing updates. RPA Vendors – Open Source RPA, Future of RPA
Practical Exercises
Setup and Configure a RPA tool and understand the user interface of the tool:
- Create a Sequence to obtain user inputs display them using a message box;
- Create a Flowchart to navigate to a desired page based on a condition;
- Create a State Machine workflow to compare user input with a random number.
- Build a process in the RPA platform using UI Automation Activities.
- Create an automation process using key System Activities, Variables and Arguments
- Also implement Automation using System Trigger
- Automate login to (web)Email account
- Recording mouse and keyboard actions.
- Scraping data from website and writing to CSV
- Implement Error Handling in RPA platform
- Web Scraping
- Email Query Processing
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Learning Robotic Process Automation: Create Software robots and automate business processes with the leading RPA tool – UiPath by Alok Mani Tripathi, Packt Publishing, 2018.
- Tom Taulli , “The Robotic Process Automation Handbook: A Guide to Implementing RPA Systems”, Apress publications, 2020.
Reference Books:
- Frank Casale (Author), Rebecca Dilla (Author), Heidi Jaynes (Author), Lauren Livingston (Author), Introduction to Robotic Process Automation: a Primer, Institute of Robotic Process Automation, Amazon Asia-Pacific Holdings Private Limited, 2018
- Richard Murdoch, Robotic Process Automation: Guide To Building Software Robots, Automate Repetitive Tasks & Become An RPA Consultant, Amazon Asia-Pacific Holdings Private Limited, 2018
- A Gerardus Blokdyk, “Robotic Process Automation Rpa A Complete Guide “, 2020
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