From Specialized Mechanics to Project Butlers: The Usage of Bots in Open Source Software Development

We seek to identify how open source software (OSS) projects adopt bot services from a diverse set of selections. Our empirical research examines bot usage in the most popular OSS repositories in GitHub.

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Published inIEEE software Vol. 39; no. 5; pp. 38 - 43
Main Authors Wang, Zhendong, Wang, Yi, Redmiles, David
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.09.2022
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects
Automation
Bot (Internet)
Codes
Open source software
Protocols
Software
Software development
Software development management
Task analysis
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Summary:We seek to identify how open source software (OSS) projects adopt bot services from a diverse set of selections. Our empirical research examines bot usage in the most popular OSS repositories in GitHub.
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ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/MS.2022.3180297