RPA is not the same as test automation
- Test automation runs functional tests against an app
- RPA automates administrative processes: loading data into a system, generating a report, sending an email when a test fails
They are complementary, not substitutes.
3 QA tasks where RPA pays off
- Daily test suite reports (RPA puts together the summary and posts it to Slack)
- Loading bugs into the tracker from a CSV exported by the testing tool
- Automatic deployment trigger to staging when green tests pass a threshold
When NOT to use RPA
- Processes that change every month (maintaining the bot costs more than the savings)
- Tasks already integrated via API (better use the API directly)
- Very low volume (less than 10 runs per month)
Next steps
If your QA team spends more than 30% of its time on repetitive tasks, there is room to automate with RPA. Book a demo.