Automate to Innovate L EA RN WHAT SCRIPTING CAN DO FOR YOU P U N E E T S I N G H

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1 Automate to Innovate LEARN WHAT SCRIPTING CAN DO FOR YOU PUNEET SINGH

2 Agenda Target Audience What will be covered in the session? Why Automate? Where to Automate? Where to Automate Examples How to Start with Automation? Live Demo To Learn More

3 Target Audience Level 1: Beginner

4 What will be covered in the session? Why you need to automate now? Where should you start? Examples to help you out

5 Why Automate? Saves Time Improves Quality Saves Money Embeds Innovation Increases Motivation

6 Where to Automate? Boring Manual and Repetitive Tasks

7 Boring Manual, and Repetitive Example 1 Problem: How to create license-specific HTMLs in less time? HTML For License A HTML for License B HTML for License C Software Product

8 Boring Manual and Repetitive Example 1 Solution: Create Dynamic HTMLs using any scripting language, such as Python. Python License Data Dynamic HTML

9 Saved Time Reduced Error Automated Task Boring Manual and Repetitive Example 1 Achievement: The manual repetitive task is automated in less time with less margin of error. 10 HTMLs are dynamically created in 5 seconds Almost zero percent of error margin 95 percent of the work is done by automation

10 Boring Manual and Repetitive Example 2 Problem: How to add release specific changes in a HTML, which is located at central server, without any human intervention?

11 Boring Manual and Repetitive Example 2 Solution: Use REST API to get data from the central server and create Dynamic HTML using Javascript. REST APIs

12 Saved Time Reduced Error Automated Task Boring Manual and Repetitive Example 2 Achievement: The manual repetitive task is automated with less margin of error. 5 HTMLs are dynamically created Almost zero percent of error margin 100 percent of the work is done by automation

13 Where to Automate? Improving Quality, Cost, and Time Task

14 Improve Quality, Cost, and Time Example 1 Problem: Create API documentation with least dependency on Subject Matter Expert (SME). Oh gosh! I don t understand code. What should I do? I write code. I don t want to write documentation.

15 Improve Quality, Cost, and Time Example 1 Solution: Create your in-house solution to get the API information directly from code or pseudo-code. Python Input 1 Scripting Solution Code/Pseudo Code More than 300 More than 20,000 lines of pseudo code Input 2 classes More than 1000 methods/functions API Information Publishing Medium Wiki-compatible HTMLs Uploaded to Wiki

16 Improve Quality, Cost, and Time Example 1 Achievement: Technical writer s and SME s man-hours are saved. Extracted API information from more than 20,000 lines of code. With Automation, the work gets completed in 2 weeks. Without Automation, it would have taken more than 3 months.

17 Improve Quality, Cost, and Time Task 2 Problem: Create Reference Documentation, such as Error Messages Documentation and Command Reference Documentation, with least dependency from SME. Error Message Documentation SME s Interest

18 Improve Quality, Cost, and Time Task 2 Solution: Information is stored in XML files. Used in-house solution to extract the data from the XML files and publish the content. Error Messages Command Reference Python Documentation

19 Improve Quality, Cost, and Time Task 2 Achievement: Technical writer s and SME s man-hours are saved. Analyzed more than 6000 error messages and filtered the needed information to create Error Messages documentation in 1 hour. Analyzed more than 400 TCL commands and filtered the needed information to create Command Reference documentation in 45 minutes.

20 How to start with Automation? Start with a small, personal, and less time-consuming project. Doxygen

21 How to start with Automation? Share your ideas with your manager and team. Doxygen

22 How to start with Automation? Share your ideas with your Business Unit and Organization. Doxygen

23 Live Demo Highlight to-be-avoided words in your legacy knowledge content.

24 To Learn More

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