Guidelines for Developing Bots for GitHub

Journal article (2023)

Authors

Mairieli Wessel Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
A.E. Zaidman Software Engineering - EEMCS
Marco Aurélio Gerosa Northern Arizona University
Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University
Research Group
Software Engineering (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2023 Mairieli Wessel, A.E. Zaidman, Marco Aurélio Gerosa, Igor Steinmacher
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2022.3224813
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Published Date

2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Software Technology

Research Group

Software Engineering

Abstract

Projects on GitHub rely on the automation provided by software development bots. Nevertheless, the presence of bots can be annoying and disruptive to the community. Backed by multiple studies with practitioners, this article provides guidelines for developing and maintaining software bots.