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by foobiekr 2369 days ago
I ... I feel bad saying this, but I can totally see a use for RPA.

One, and more often than not, applications embed a ton of business logic in the client which is not easily available in the API.

Two, and honestly I feel dirty writing this, the UI is usually a lot better tested. Or tested at all.

I'm just the messenger, here. We were very adamant about NOT doing this in my previous company or our current projects, but I can totally understand the "it's good enough for humans, it's good enough for machines" attitude. It makes me sad though.