How to Automate Your Desktop Apps with Ruby and Appium

Desktop automation is not easy, and for a while, Augustin Gottlieb Pequeno found automatically testing desktop apps a challenge. In this talk, he will share his automation journey with you so you can avoid the pitfalls and pain points common to desktop automation and properly build an automation framework for your desktop apps that can run on a CI/CD pipeline, while being able to support cross-platform testing. In addition, he will also explore the use of Ruby for test automation and how this often overlooked niche language is perfect for desktop automation testing when combined with Appium. The best part? All the tools are open source, so you can start implementing it for your projects right after the presentation. So join Augustin and start your desktop automation journey. Whether you are a Linux, Mac, or Windows user, you will be able to take something with you from this talk!