RPA Vs Traditional Automation Tools

Question

I am Test Automation engineer and recently got opportunity to explore RPA tool blueprism. After exploring I found it similar to UI automation tools supporting various technologi

Answer 1

The technological challenges of RPA and automation tools are quite similar. RPA and testing products differ in their user experience and reporting. While testing tools often offer features to assess risk or create testing data, RPA tools have bigger focus on bot creation and user data storage.

You can tell that there are similarities by the fact that Tricentis, the company behind the testing solution Tosca, is now also developing a RPA product (Tricentis RPA).