The Operaton project has lots of possible topics that could be interesting for students of computer science. This topic is to collect potential topic ideas and establish exchange with students.
UI/UX related topics
UX Analysis
As we are reworking the UI, we also want to noticably improve the UX. A research project could analyze the previous UI, make their own suggestions and compare it to the current state of the new web apps. Getting results from a test/interview group would be possible as well.
UI Accessibility
We want to provide an accessible UI. A research project could analyze the accessibility of the new web apps and work out the areas with potential for improvement. Getting results from a test/interview group would be possible as well.
I’d like to propose an interesting research topic for anyone diving into API design and optimization: improving the External Task API.
A student could explore various approaches to enhance this API, analyzing the benefits and trade-offs of different technologies like:
gRPC – Faster and more efficient communication
Event Streams – Asynchronous and scalable task handling
Server-Sent Events (SSE) – A lightweight push-based alternative
An exciting challenge would be to assess whether implementing the API as Server-Sent Events (SSE) could bring tangible advantages. At the same time, we need to ensure backward compatibility by keeping the current API (which would become legacy) available within the system.
Interesting approach for the user perspective (and a little shift to grab some of the low-code popularity): Introducing more connectors.
Especially interesting would be if the connectors could be configured on process deployment level (so I can connect to either my test or production system). I haven’t dig into the feature set of Camunda 7 for a few years, but I guess there is a lot of room for improvement.
I would love to see RabbitMQ integration. This is also where Camunda 8 is taking off.
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Implement/Research better Join-Support for Gateways (or maybe add complex gateways), see BPMN 2.0 inclusive gateway join behaviour - specification vs. implementation - Discussion & Questions - Camunda Forum
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An exploration how a Plugin System for the new Web Applications could look like. If we embedded the Web App into the Distribution as it was with the old one, would it be possible to deliver Engine / Cockpit Plugins as one dependency, or will there always be a split between FE and BE?