Automating UI Health Checks with UiPath: A Smarter Approach


Automating UI Health Checks with UiPath: A Smarter Approach
Introduction
Monitoring the health of an application’s UI is crucial to ensure smooth performance and detect anomalies early. In this blog, I’ll walk you through how I built an automated health check using UiPath to verify UI elements, track page load times, and capture screenshots for review.
Why Automate UI Health Checks?
Manual monitoring of an application’s UI can be time-consuming and prone to errors. Automating this process with UiPath provides:
Accuracy in detecting missing elements
Efficiency in performance tracking
Scheduled execution for continuous monitoring
Visual logs through captured screenshots
Key Features of the Health Check
Here’s a breakdown of how my health check works:
1. Checking the UI Status
The automation is designed to validate the visibility of essential UI components, ensuring they are present and functional.
2. Monitoring Page Load Time
Each page's loading time is recorded, helping to identify performance issues or slow responses.
3. Detecting Missing UI Elements
UiPath checks if any expected tabs or sections are missing, providing alerts if discrepancies are found.
4. Capturing Screenshots
Once the webpage is fully loaded, the automation captures a screenshot, ensuring a visual record of the UI at that moment.
5. Storing Screenshots
The images are saved in a predefined storage path, allowing easy access for review and troubleshooting.
6. Scheduled Execution
The health check runs at a specific time daily, ensuring consistent monitoring without manual intervention.
Implementation in UiPath
To achieve this, UiPath activities such as:
Element Exists (to check UI components)
Get Attribute (to verify visibility)
Wait for Page Load (to track response time)
Take Screenshot (to capture UI state)
Move File (to store images in a structured path)
are leveraged efficiently.
Conclusion
Automating UI health checks using UiPath enhances reliability and ensures consistent performance monitoring. By eliminating manual effort, this approach provides data-driven insights into the application’s behavior, making troubleshooting faster and more effective.
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