Burkhard Meier is a professional software test automation designer, developer, and analyst. He has more than 17 years' professional experience working for several software companies in California, USA.nHe is the author of Python GUI Programming Cookbook, First and Second Edition. This book is also available as a Packt video course.nHe is also the author of the Python Projects Packt video course.nIn his professional career, he developed advanced in-house testing frameworks written in Python 3. He also developed advanced test automation GUIs in Python, which highly increased the productivity of the software development testing team.nWhen not dreaming in Python code, he reads programming books about design, likes to go for long walks, and reads classical poetry.