Chapter 29. Applying Robotic Automation to Mobile Applications Testing
Software robotics is simply automation or automation with human-like skill. Bots can't make judgments, and they only handle structured, rule-based processes that can be moved offline for backend execution. The bots don't, for example, interact with the customer who needs a SIM card activated. The customer service representative, though, can enter the customer details and push the activation process work to a software robot for processing. It is estimated that 15 minutes of human work can be handled in 1 minute by a bot.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Software robots and key areas of their applicability
- Benefits of Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
- An example of implementing RPA for mobile testing and the tools involved