Web Services allied with RPA

Web Services allied with RPA

Conventional approach Vs Re-imagined approach

Conventional Web Automation Approach

1.  Generally all automation tools provide web connectors to integrate web applications, here we need to capture individual web pages, web controls and object in a fixed sequence as mentioned in the requirement documents

2.  Development efforts are required (~2-3 days, depends on requirements)

3.  Automation flows or steps are then created post all the required web pages and web controls are captured or created alongside

4.  Developers are required to set correct matching rules set to identify individual web components within automation development environment

5.  Web connectors has few other explicit settings as well and same needs to be set prior to the above steps

6.  Automation execution speed depends on the base application’s behavior and its response

Re-imagined Approach – Using Web Services

1.  Instead of using GUI automation we can effectively use web services to retrieve the desired data from web application or perform certain actions

2.  Web services works on server and returns the result over http response

3.  No user interface is required and hence no point of GUI automation and also resilient to UI changes as well or version upgrade

4.  Response from web service is fast as compared to web application

5.  Easy for developers to consume web services and integrate the same in there solution

6.  More secure since application is not exposed

7.  Confined inputs through query string and hence no chance of other irrelevant input

8.  Zero infrastructure since it can hosted on cloud

9.  Response time is less in XML/JSON output 

Use Case A: Conventional Web Automation

1. Below use case where funds information are fetched through workflow application over the web and later applied against the policies information stored inside Application B

 

Use Case A: Re-engineered via Web Service usage

1.  Fetch fund information via web service created for Workflow application, information is then parsed to obtain the correct data, application of funds against policies information stored inside Application B