Appium was originally developed by Dan Cuellar in 2011 under the name "iOSAuto", written in the
C# programming language. The program was
open-sourced in August 2012 using the
Apache 2 license. In January 2013,
Sauce Labs agreed to fund Appium's development and motivated its code to be rewritten using
Node.js. Appium was also selected as an
Open Source Rookie of the Year by Black Duck Software. In October 2016, Appium joined the
JS Foundation. Initially as a mentor program, it graduated in August 2017. == References ==