[rdedev]

Its not just because of poor documentation. I had used one of the RPA tools, Automation Anywhere, to basically open the browser, go to a url and enter a form and scrap some results (this was part of my office training where I was forced to learn this tool). The steps for this process involved invoking the command to open the browser, waiting for some period of time, enter the url in the browser, again wait for some period of time when the results have loaded and then scrap the results into an excel sheet.

The wait time had to be set appropriately. The tool had no way of detecting if the browser is fully opened and responsive. So if the wait time was too small, it would try to enter the url to a non responsive browser and fail. To make matters worse, each computer will take a different amount of time to load the browser fully. So I had to resort to set a large enough wait time and hope it works. In the end it just seemed ironic that an automation tool could end up making the job take longer than manually doing it. I dont know if the current version of Automation Anywhere still has this issue.