Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the input elements for PAD and their use cases. We now know what types of variables there are and how we can create and manipulate them. This enables us to communicate with other external applications, receive data, and also return it. UI elements and images help us identify and interact with the buttons and areas of applications on a local machine, enabling automated operation.

Now, we can use this knowledge to start implementing real business processes and addressing use cases with it using the additional actions of PAD. We’ll start with the UI automation actions, which we’ll study in the next chapter.