Software Bots in Software Engineering: Benefits and Challenges

Conference paper (2022)

Authors

Mairieli Wessel Software Engineering - EEMCS
Marco Aurélio Gerosa Northern Arizona University, Universidade de São Paulo
Emad Shihab Concordia University
Research Group
Software Engineering (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2022 Mairieli Wessel, Marco Aurélio Gerosa, Emad Shihab
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3524842.3528533
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Published Date

2022

Language

English

Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Software Technology

Research Group

Software Engineering

Abstract

Software bots are becoming increasingly popular in software engineering (SE). In this tutorial, we define what a bot is and present several examples. We also discuss the many benefits bots provide to the SE community, including helping in development tasks (such as pull request review and integration) and onboarding newcomers to a project. Finally, we discuss the challenges related to interacting with and developing software bots.