Appium is excited to participate as a Google Summer of Code sponsor project. Here's a fun list of ideas that a Summer of Code student participant can use as a foundation for thinking about what to contribute to Appium!
| Idea | Description |
|---|---|
| Apple tvOS Support | Our users have been asking for an Appium driver for Apple tvOS apps. Is this possible? We're not entirely sure! Why not be awesome and build it? |
| Test App revamp | Appium uses a number of poorly-designed mobile applications in its own testing. We have to use a variety of apps because we need to test that Appium can automate all the various controls and platform features that mobile vendors provide. Really what we need is one cross-platform app (or one app per platform) that exhibit all and only the features we need to test. This would be a fun project to build some mobile apps used for testing and also demoing Appium at events and in training videos, etc... |
| Tooling and Performance | We haven't instrumented Appium with very many performance metrics, and don't really know if we're missing some low-hanging fruit in terms of performance. Maybe you can help us do that? |
| Babel | We have a lot of repos, and they're all on a really old version of Babel. They all need to stay in sync. How can we make this situation better, and upgrade to the latest and greatest? |
| Unity3d Driver | Historically, Appium hasn't been great at automating games. We don't have any particular support for the frameworks used to create games. Unity is a popular one, for example. What if we could write an Appium driver that talked to an embedded process in a test version of a Unity game, that allowed us to find and interact with 3d elements? It would be amazing! You can also be amazing and lead Appium into this new world. |
| Testing the Internet of Things | Appium's architecture makes it dead simple to integrate drivers for automating new technologies. What about really new technologies like IoT devices? Help to redefine the semantics of the WebDriver protocol for use with IoT, and build a driver for an IoT device to prove it out. |
| Driver for X | Have an idea of something else Appium could automate that it doesn't already? Build a driver for it! This would involve some awesome Node.js code, plus whatever else is needed to integrate with the platform you have in mind. |
Hopefully this gives you some ideas of fun projects that would be substantial and long-lasting contributions to the Appium community.