Preface
The idea of mobile automation using the Selenium syntax first came about at the Selenium Conference in April 2012 in London by Dan Cuellar. During the presentation, he showed the automation of iOS using the Selenium syntax. People who attended the conference were excited about the tool's possibilities.
A few months after the Selenium conference, Jason Huggins contacted Dan about his project on mobile automation. Jason encouraged Dan to release his code under an open source license. In August that year, Dan released the source code on GitHub. Jason then decided to introduce the project in Mobile Testing Summit in November 2012, but the project needed a new name first. Thus, the name Appium was born.
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