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Rakuten Card Co., Ltd.
JP
Last activity: 27 Mar 2023 9:45 EDT
Regarding the method of developing robots in parallel.
How to develop robots in parallel. We need to create a large number of processes in one package. Therefore, we would like to have multiple members creating automation in parallel. We are considering the following method of parallel development. We have no knowledge of parallel development. I would like to get pointers or references if you have any.
(1) Make the necessary inquiries to the target application. (2) Create .os file and create automation for each person. (3) For each person's .os file created, store the file in one package. (4) Create an automation that calls the created automation.
Pegasystems Inc.
US
@ShunsukeM6155The best way to accomplish parallel development with a robot is to assign each developer to a different application that you wish to automate. This allows for the least amount of knowledge transfer between developers. With each developer automating a particular application, they will acquire the knowledge about how that particular application works and what works well in terms of matching and automation. Each developer will work on her own automations separate from the solution itself. For example, if the use case called for opening an application and gathering some information from a particular account and evaluating it to determine whether or not a hold needs to be placed in a different application, my developers would be allocated as follows.
@ShunsukeM6155The best way to accomplish parallel development with a robot is to assign each developer to a different application that you wish to automate. This allows for the least amount of knowledge transfer between developers. With each developer automating a particular application, they will acquire the knowledge about how that particular application works and what works well in terms of matching and automation. Each developer will work on her own automations separate from the solution itself. For example, if the use case called for opening an application and gathering some information from a particular account and evaluating it to determine whether or not a hold needs to be placed in a different application, my developers would be allocated as follows.
- Developer A would automate application A and perform the interrogation and create the required automations.
- These would be things like; Start, Stop, Login, SearchForCustomer, GatherInformation, etc.
- Developer B would automate application B and perform the interrogation and create the required automations.
- These would be things like; Start, Stop, Login, SearchForCustomer, PlaceHold, etc.
- Developer C might come along later (since she will need access to the assets that the other developers have created and create the automations that use the ones the other developers have created. She might create automations to evaluate the results from "ApplicationA.GatherInformation()" to determine if a hold needs to be placed.