1、 May 2022,IDC#US49054022 White Paper Leveraging RPA and Software Quality Automation to Help Enable Application and Business Optimization Sponsored by:UiPath Melinda-Carol Ballou Maureen Fleming May 2022 IDC OPINION High-quality,adaptive software delivered with velocity enabled organizations to dynam

2、ically shift to digitization,hybrid work,and rapid business execution during the COVID-19 pandemic and now into 2022/2023 and beyond.Automation played and continues to play a key role developers cite lack of automation as the primary inhibitor to productivity in IDCs 2021 PaaSView and the Developer

3、Survey research(of around 1,000 respondents worldwide).IDC also sees a shortage of skilled,professional developers who benefit increasingly from low-code and no-code development,as well as the emergence of citizen developers(who also have visibility into core business needs,but little or no experien

4、ce with testing).Automation in this context fuels digital transformation.We see organizations trending toward intelligent process automation(IPA)and robotic process automation(RPA),expanding beyond business areas(such as HR)into IT and software quality initiatives.As a result of this trend,this pape

5、r considers and evaluates the ways in which application testing can benefit from RPA and,at the same time,how testing can improve RPA quality as a foundation with the potential for increased business responsiveness and efficiency.Successful software testing demands repetition and consistency that ca

6、n be mind numbing for the people involved.At the same time(and in part as a result),human error undermines the accuracy of test results in ways that hide visibility into software defects that derail software quality and deployment velocity.Early approaches to automate tedious manual test cases for i