The current technology-driven era has embraced intelligent automation processes that are integrated with advanced robotics, thereby, reshaping the way industry’s function. Such automation streamlines the operations and offers greater efficiency and improved productivity. With the growing advancement at the technological front, industries are considering robotic automation strategies to replace tedious, repetitive, and mundane jobs and to offer around-the-clock support for improved customer satisfaction.
While the robotic testing process uses bots for testing procedures, traditional test automation uses codes or software tools. Companies are preferring the robotic testing process over traditional test automation for the accuracy and consistency they provide, thereby, offering better stability, scalability, and responsive models.
What is RPA?
There is a lot of buzz around RPA across various sectors over the past few years. RPA which stands for Robotic Process Automation, is a software bot designed to mimic human behaviour and automate high volume, data-intensive, and tiresome tasks. Such RPA-integrated applications capture data, understand it, trigger responses, and communicate with other systems to get the job done. Robotic automation is preferred as they complete the task most efficiently and effortlessly delivering error-free output. According to research by Forrester Research, the global market size of robotic process automation is estimated to reach $2.9 billion by the end of 2021 from $250 million in 2016.
RPA is integrated with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning, which is popularly preferred for improved agility and reduce the complexity of the test cycle. RPA bots use a series of commands that automate the process and workflow across various industries and enable the bot to perform the task under pre-defined business conditions.
Why RPA to automate the process?
Traditional automation or manual workflow lacks process transparency, increases the dependency on the employees, and is prone to slow operations as they are susceptible to various changes within the process. Automating workflows using RPA will remove the potential barriers that lead to inefficient systems and enables the company’s core software system to function at its best.
The RPA involves bots with low code/no code, which creates greater opportunities for even a non-technical individual to handle the automation of the application with minimal tech support. Furthermore, these bots comply with regulatory compliance, security, and performance parameters.
Benefits of RPA
- Intelligent bots to create and perform the end-to-end process
- Offers consistent and transparent user experience
- Improved decision-making abilities
- Enriched data capture even during heavy data-driven scenarios
- Improves business agility
- Bridges the operational gaps in remote working systems
What is test automation?
Test automation or automated software testing is a quality assurance process adopted by businesses to run an automatic test to improve the accuracy and reduce time consumption. Though the process is automated, the tester still requires spending some time on writing and maintaining test scripts. Test automation helps to eliminate the bottlenecks associated with the manual testing process.
Test automation is an essential and continuous procedure in the process of software or application testing. Tester runs the automation repeatedly in a different environment to ensure the errors are eliminated and software or application runs at its maximum efficiency.
Difference between robotic process automation and traditional automation
On a broader scale, both robotic process automation and traditional automation are designed to reduce human intervention and increase accuracy. The difference lies in the core system as to how they operate and to what extent they can automate the process. The difference between RPA and traditional test automation can be summarized as:
| TRADITIONAL TEST AUTOMATION | ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION |
| Test automation performs with specific codes applied to the system. | RPA uses software bots to perform task. |
| Test automation is conducted on products. | RPA can be introduced to products as well as the entire business process. |
| Coding knowledge is required to perform test automation. | Since intelligent, codeless bots perform the testing, coding knowledge is not required. |
| Test automations are aimed at reducing the time consumption, otherwise, it needs human efforts to carry out the testing. | RPA is aimed at minimizing/eliminating human efforts. |
| Test automation can run on limited software. | RPA can be implemented on a wide range of software platforms. |
| Test automation can be executed only with a code. | The AI-driven bots can handle the entire testing process with minimal human intervention. |
| Test automation can be used to automate only the test cases. | RPA can automate the entire process like form-filling, front desk operation, etc. |
| Test automation has limited abilities; hence, it cannot be interchanged for RPA. | RPA can use introduced where the traditional test automation is already in place. |
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