The process used by the software industry to deliver a high quality software/program is known as Development Life Cycle. It aims to produce a high-quality software/program that meets or exceeds customer expectations within times. It is also known as RPA life cycle or RPA development process.
The following figure is a graphical representation of the various stages of a typical RPA development process.
A typical RPA development process consists of the following stages:
Testing: It is the most important part of the RPA development process. In this stage, Quality of the product has been assured. A good testing procedures assured a high quality Bot delivery. Some of the basic test approaches are Unit Testing, Smoke Testing and System Integration Testing which are used during after the development stage. UAT or User Acceptance Testing is used to check weather the product is meeting the Client or customer expectation or not. In this stage, Most of the Bugs and changes has been identified and fixed into the program.
Deployment: Once the product is tested and ready to be deployed it is released formally in the appropriate market. Sometimes product deployment happens in stages as per the business strategy of that organization. The product may first be released in a limited segment and tested in the real business environment. Based on the feedback, the product may be released as it is or with suggested enhancements in the targeting market segment. After the product is released in the market. This period is also known as hyper care period.
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The following figure is a graphical representation of the various stages of a typical RPA development process.
A typical RPA development process consists of the following stages:
Planning:It is the most important and fundamental stage of the RPA development process.It is performed by the senior members of the industries or the organization with domain experts. It starts with the getting educated or educating the clients about the RPA and its benefits and it ends with defining the roles and responsibility of the members. There are many vendors available in the market who provides RPA software. These vendors either has their own software tools or they has brought the licenses from the others organization and provides extra benefits as well.
Analyzing: It is the second most important stage. After identifying and defining role and responsibility in the planning stage in an organization, Process has been analyzed for identifying the best candidates for the RPA development process basis on Benefits Analysis, Risk Analysis and Cost Analysis. For Process Analysis, Organizations follows some basic assessment or procedures. After analyzing, we get the best candidates for the RPA development.
Designing: From this stage, actual bot delivery process starts. In this stage, Preparation of the Requirement Document, Solution design, System Setup, Test Data and Testing procedure has been started. Based on the Requirements Document, usually more than one design approach for the Bot architecture is proposed and documented in Solution Design document.
It is reviewed by all the important stakeholders and based on various parameters as risk assessment, product robustness, design modularity, budget and time constraints, the best design approach is selected for Bot delivery.
Development: From this stage, actual bot development process starts and the product is built. The programming code is generated as per solution design during this stage. If the design is performed in a detailed and organized manner, code generation can be accomplished without much hassle. Developers must follow the coding guidelines defined by their organization. As per the timeline of developments, RPA developer or RPA developer team completes their target. It is recommended that a RPA developer completes its module or task as per schedule time with zero bugs.
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