‘Practical Desktop App Test Automation with Appium’ eBook is available

A practical guide to implementing test automation for desktop apps on Windows.

I am proud to announce my new eBook: “Practical Desktop App Test Automation with Appium”.

Over my 20 years career in software development/testing, most of the work was on web apps. Despite my bias, desktop apps are still around. We all know that not all software works better in web browsers. For example, mobile apps are more like Desktop Apps except that they are written for mobile platforms.

My test automation work also has primarily been on web apps, and it is not my intention to neglect to automate desktop apps. Automated testing desktop apps is more challenging than web apps as there is no standard behind desktop apps (HTML and JavaScript are for web apps). I did have a try to automate desktop apps with some success, even released a small wrapper library RFormSpec based on AutoIT3. However, I was not satisfied in terms of execution reliability and test scripts maintainability.

I have been looking for a standard-based solution like Selenium WebDriver (for web applications). In 2019, I found the answer. The answer is Appium + WinAppDriver, recommended by Microsoft.