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We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to zaproxy/zest to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
117
Forks
36
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
19
Avg merge
48m
Merged PRs (30d)
3
Dominant language
Java
License
MPL-2.0
Last GitHub push
Sep 16, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 20, 2026
No contributing guide
Code of conduct
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  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's MPL-2.0 license.
  4. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.
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  • Support PATCH method
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    zaproxy/zest#370 · 15 comments ·

  • Adding new feature to select HTML drop down list options
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    zaproxy/zest#230 · 1 comment ·

  • Can't tell if an assertion has been violated from CLI's output
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    zaproxy/zest#215 · 1 reaction ·

  • Commandline Interface programming
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    zaproxy/zest#177 · 1 reaction ·

  • Reporting
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    zaproxy/zest#176 ·

  • Parameter UrlEncoding in Request Body
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    zaproxy/zest#81 · 3 comments · 2 reactions ·

  • Converting Fiddler’s “saz” recordings to ZEST’s “zst” files
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    zaproxy/zest#78 · 2 comments ·

  • Interaction with Alert Boxes
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    zaproxy/zest#75 · 2 comments ·

  • Add `trimWhitespace` parameter for String related statements
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    zaproxy/zest#74 · 1 comment ·

  • Zest should throw an exception if it doesn't recognize the type of script.
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    zaproxy/zest#73 ·

  • Throw an exception if required parameters not supplied
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    zaproxy/zest#71 ·

  • Command line JSON output
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    zaproxy/zest#24 · 1 reaction ·

  • Text representations
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    zaproxy/zest#23 ·

  • Add support for 'contexts' so that the JS runner can deal with tests (assertions, conditionals) out of request scope
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    zaproxy/zest#12 · 1 assignee ·

  • Define a common subset of allowed regex expressions
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    zaproxy/zest#11 · 1 assignee ·

  • Check element types when loading sub elements in zest.js
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    zaproxy/zest#10 · 1 assignee ·

  • ZestScript shouldnt extend ZestStatement
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    zaproxy/zest#7 · 1 assignee ·

  • Add TransformRandomTextReplace
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    zaproxy/zest#4 · 1 assignee ·

  • JUnit integration
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    zaproxy/zest#1 · 1 assignee ·

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