Importance of RPA (Robotic Process

Automation) in software Testing.

SIVAKIRAN TALARI
Senior Consultant

CAPGEMINI Technology Services India Ltd.

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Abstract
RPA is a Robotic process automation (RPA).Robotic Process
Automation enables us with tools to create our own software
robots to automate any business process. Robotic process
automation is more than a testing tool. There are various RPA
tools available across the industry which enables software teams
to build and execute automated tests. These tools are exclusively
designed to automate testing which helps to reduce the manual
effort. Robotic process automation (RPA) tools have taken the
concept of test automation tool to the next level, allowing people
to build complex and rules driven business processes with little
software development skills. This paper attempts to explain why
testing industry needs RPA to attain accuracy, repeatability and
speed at presumably less cost.
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What is RPA?
RPA is robotic process automation. It is not an industrial robotic
technology or a physical robot. It is only a nonphysical software
robot performing process activities by replacing human
intervention or activities with application. There is no much
difference in RPA and ITPA(Information technology process
automation).After all, they both leverage software tools to
automate processes – promoting efficiencies, lowering costs,
raising accuracy and elevating quality.

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Advantage of RPA :-
1.Codeless
2. Lower Cost
3. Accuracy & Quality
4. Consistency
5. Improved Analytics
6.Increased Employee Productivity
7.Increased Customer Satisfaction
8.Faster
9.Reconciliation from Multiple Systems
10.Versatility
11.Better IT Support and Management
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Disadvantages:-
1.Initial Stage setup
2.Lack of Skilled resources
3.Maintenance Cost
4.Not suitable for dynamically changing tasks
5.100% Process automation is impractical

RPA conception used in Financial Sector:-

Banking:
Report Generation
Approval Process for Mortgages
Fixed Asset Amortization
Foreign Exchange and Bad debt write-offs
New account (multiple) entry
Journal entry
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Insurance:
Part of Underwriting Services and policy
issuance
Electronic filing of policy documents
Premiums comparison
Update customer data
Update data for new products
Recoveries and Payments Comparison

Capital Markets
Reconciliation activities
Checking customer records across various
systems
Customer on-boarding process
Upstream and downstream data comparison
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FACTS:-
•The market for RPA is huge and expected to grow rapidly
in the next few years. By 2020 the Global Robotics
Automation Market is expected to reach $5 billion, with
year-on-year growth of between 55 – 65%.

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Robotics Process Automation and its
implementation challenges
 The challenges can range from Business (e.g. to provide
clear business process steps), to IT (e.g. to provide correct
and reliable IT infrastructure with right setup of security
policies), to SDLC (to follow correct development
methodology and quality standards).
 Minimum wait time.
 Addressing missed requirements (business steps and
rules) as well as ‘current business process optimization’
while moving to robotics.
 Testing the solution may also account new set of
challenges.
 Focus of testing should not derail from testing the robotics
solution to testing the underlying applications.
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References & Appendix

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/similarities-differences-
between-test-robotic-roger-ashwood
http://www.10xds.com/advantages-robotic-process-
automation/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/robotics-process-
automation-part1-hemant-joshi

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Author Biography

Sivakiran Talari
Years of experience: - 10 years
Sivakiran.talari@capgemini.com

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Thank You!!!

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