Testing your Bot ensures that you have a workable Bot.
Do a test run
Test runs in RPA Studio are exactly that. RPA Studio does not persist results; it only keeps the results of the Bot's latest test run. Those results are discarded as soon as one of the following events occurs:
You change anything about your Bot
You test the Bot again
You close RPA Studio
The following video takes you through the testing process. A step-by-step description is below.
To test your Tutorial Bot, click on the Start icon in the Flowchart tab.
You can also run a Bot by selecting it in the project tree and clicking on Run in the RPA menu, or pressing F6.
After the run has finished, RPA Studio displays the result in the Flowchart tab. The Flowchart shows the result of each Step as well as the actual Bot flow at run-time.
Test result for Tutorial Bot
You are now in Results mode, which means that you can't modify your Bot.
In Results mode, the Details tab turns into the Results tab. The columns in the Results tab contain detailed information on the Bot run (see "Columns in RPA Studio").
If you want to modify your Bot, you need to switch back to Design mode.
To switch back to Design mode, click on Design mode in the RPA menu.
Switch to Design mode via the RPA menu
What happens if you test the Bot a second time
The Tutorial Bot is designed to run only once.
It takes the Notepad file and saves it as tutorial.txt. So if you test the Bot again, the Save As dialog prompts a different confirmation dialog: This file already exists, do you want to overwrite it?
The Tutorial Bot does not steer this dialog and, consequently, throws an error.