What is it?
- Screenshot and documentation tool on Steroids.
- It can take a series of screenshots and generate documentation in Microsoft Word template.
- Just like Windows’ built-in Snip and Sketch or Snipping tool but, with Microsoft Paint & OCR capabilities.
- Installs locally, just like Snappy.
- This tool can spit out a skeleton for RPA developers.
- This is to RPA developer, what Gherkin/Cucumber is to a C#/Java developer.
Benefit hypothesis
- Target audience:
- Agile: Business owners / Product owners
- Waterfall: SME & BA
- In short, those who need to create requirements for RPA developers.
- This way, instead of writing boring wordy SRS documents, RPA developers could be given bare bones skeleton of what is needed.
Components
- Diagram Builder
- To create the structure of your process and define the specific steps to perform it
- Sequence Builder
- Shows a sequence of screenshots on the right hand side strip
- Allows reordering
- Segue to image editor for editing screen shots
- Allows to annotate more actions
- Image Editor
- Tools for text annotation, text formatting, image editing, etc. cosmetics
Workflow:
- Step recorder (inspector)
- Takes screenshots and collects “smart data”
- From UI Path provided templates
- Allows creating a sequence manually
- Open saved workflow (*.ssp, *.ssg)
- These files could be versioned in git or TFS
- Allows collaboration
Export and Publish
- Robot documentation in Microsoft Word (details)
- Process template (customizable)
- Color themes of the word document, other formatting could also be specified
- Ui Path Studio Document
- allows to continue implementing and debugging robot in UI Path Studio
- allows to continue implementing and debugging robot in UI Path Studio