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Wessel, Mairieli (author), Abdellatif, Ahmad (author), Wiese, Igor Scaliante (author), Conte, Tayana (author), Shihab, Emad (author), Gerosa, Marco Aurélio (author), Steinmacher, Igor (author)Software bots automate tasks within Open Source Software (OSS) projects’ pull requests and save reviewing time and effort (“the good”). However, their interactions can be disruptive and noisy and lead to information overload (“the bad”). To identify strategies to overcome such problems, we applied Design Fiction as a participatory method with 32...conference paper 2022
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Wessel, Mairieli (author), Gerosa, Marco Aurélio (author), Shihab, Emad (author)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....conference paper 2022
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Abdellatif, Ahmad (author), Wessel, Mairieli (author), Steinmacher, Igor (author), Gerosa, Marco A. (author), Shihab, Emad (author)Bots have become popular in software projects as they play critical roles, from running tests to fixing bugs/vulnerabilities. However, the large number of software bots adds extra effort to practitioners and researchers to distinguish human accounts from bot accounts to avoid bias in data-driven studies. Researchers developed several...conference paper 2022
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Orynbayeva, Altynay (author)Companies today are continually looking for new ways to digitize and automate their processes in order to maximize productivity and efficiency. Existing academic research has shown the efficiency and benefits of process automation using Robotics Process Automation (RPA). Through preliminary research, we observed that most of the companies have...master thesis 2019