The facility of recording user steps on a computer and playing them back has made Robotic Process Automation (RPA) highly successful. Without this feature, the adoption of the technology might have been very slow and it would have been seen as another automation/scripting tool.

In the previous chapter, we gained a basic understanding of Robotic process automation. In this chapter, we will see how to use the recorder as the first step of automation in our journey. Before that, let us understand the UiPath tool and learn how to install it (you can only use the recorder after installing it). We will cover:

• The UiPath stack and components of the platform.
• How to download and install UiPath components.
• Understanding the Project Studio in detail. The Project Studio is the place where developers spend most of their time configuring the Robots.
• The recorder, with two step-by-step examples to quickly master record and play.