Pega Robotics Solution and projects loading very slow
Hi Team - Need experts help. We have built automation solutions, projects which are dependent on each other and any automation procedures we load from these projects are loading extremely slow. Even to make a minor change in a procedure its taking painfully long time. Once the development is complete, when its time to build a solution for debug, testing and deployment, it takes almost 20 mins and is extremely unproductive for the team.
Our architecture houses solutions and projects with automation procedures built across various usecases which spans close to 4 years now but off late the solutions and projects are extremely slow in loading. We checked with our infra teams and n/w teams and they have confirmed that it has nothing to do with the dev environment.
Are there any settings or temp files that can be cleared to avoid this situation? Our dev team's productivity is severely impacted due to this and not sure if upgrading to a latest robotics version will do any help.
We are using Robtics studio version of 19.1.25.
Pegasystems Inc.
US
@NagaB333 There are a few things you can do to make testing your projects easier and faster.
@NagaB333 There are a few things you can do to make testing your projects easier and faster.
- Reduce the amount of intra-project references. If possible, design your solution such that each project references as few other projects as possible.
- Perform only the most final testing the solution level.
- Design your automations such that they don't really rely on each other so that each part can be tested independently at the project level. This reduces the build time because you are not constantly building and running the entire solution.
- Use the Robot Inspector to test each automation to ensure it functions as expected before integrating it into your solution.
- Don't constantly "clean" your projects. If you have not made any changes, they won't need to rebuild.
- You might also consider disabling the "Build References" and "Debug Symbols" options on the build tabs of each project's properties window. This seems to save a little time for me, but it is not dramatic.
I would suggest that you take a look at the V21 preview as you can now migrate your 19.1 solutions to V21 and test them. If you have any issues, it would be a great idea to submit them as soon as possible, so that they might be addressed before general availability. V21 will reduce the startup time from 19.1 as it no longer needs to compile anything to startup and only launches what is necessary. It is quite a dramatic improvement once you've experienced it.
https://collaborate.pega.com/discussion/robot-studio-v21-preview-2-now-available
Achmea
NL
@NagaB333 We also faced this problem in the past. We had built solutions with over 10 projects. A run or a clean and rebuild could easily take more than 10 minutes.
We solved this problem by taking those big solutions apart. Now, most of our solutions contain only 2-4 projects. This works the best for us (keeps stuff simple and fast).