Windows and Web Application - Rules

[PankajNaik]

Hi Team,

What are the rules need to follow or plan or consider at the time of analysis for windows based application and for Web based application

1) if we are doing RPA for windows application 

and 

2) If we are doing RPA for Web applications.

What are the points needs to be remember ,  what are the approaches need to follow .

If any differences please provide the compassion in table.

Regards,
Pankaj

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Pankaj Naik
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[LucaValente · Accepted solution]

Hi Pankaj,

regardless the type of applications, the main rules are accessibility and stability. As part of your analysis you definitely want to run an Application Assessment ( https://portal.blueprism.com/documents/application-assessment-overview ) and use the Blue Prism software to spy the elements of your target application to verify BP can identify, read and write them, and what spy mode works best for that type of application. Then you want to consider stability: how often is that application suppose to change? If you planning to interface the web version of Gmail, you know that Goggle can change the UI whenever they want and you're not in control of it, so it is not a good idea for an automation. Or if you are interfacing an windows application developed withing your organization, how often do they release a new version (which will require the automation to be tested again)?
Additionally, in case of web applications you want to consider what browser has to be used and verify the BP compatibility here https://bpdocs.blueprism.com/bp-6-7/en-us/Guides/chrome-firefox/chrome-firefox.htm?tocpath=Guides%7CNative%20Chrome%20and%20Firefox%20integration%7C_____0 

I hope this helps.

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Luca Valente
Senior Product Consultant
Blue Prism
America/New_York
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[PankajNaik]

Thanks for explaination.

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Pankaj Naik
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