BotSEpapers

List of research papers related to Bots used in Software engineering.

Software repositories

• The Power of Bots: Characterizing and Understanding Bots in OSS Projects [source]

• An Exploratory Study of Bot Commits [source]

• Bots Don't Mind Waiting, Do They? Comparing the Interaction With Automatically and Manually Created Pull Requests. [source]

• How Do Software Developers Use GitHub Actions to Automate Their Workflows? [source]

• Exploring How Software Developers Work with Mention Bot in GitHub [source]

• Building Sankie: An AI Platform for DevOps [source]

• What to Expect from Code Review Bots on GitHub?: A Survey with OSS Maintainers [source]

• Should I Stale or Should I Close? An Analysis of a Bot That Closes Abandoned Issues and Pull Requests [source]

• CLIONE: Clone Modification Support for Pull Request Based Development [source]

• Can automated pull requests encourage software developers to upgrade out-of-date dependencies? [source]

• Automatic Contract Insertion with CCBot [source]

• C-3PR: A Bot for Fixing Static Analysis Violations via Pull Requests [source]

• Towards an Autonomous Bot for Automatic Source Code Refactoring [source]

• Interactive Refactoring Documentation Bot [source]

• Interactive Software Refactoring Bot [source]

• RefBot: Intelligent Software Refactoring Bot [source]

• A User-aware Intelligent Refactoring for Discrete and Continuous Software Integration [source]

• SAW-BOT: Proposing Fixes for Static Analysis Warnings with GitHub Suggestions [source]

• Repairnator patches programs automatically [source]

• How to Design a Program Repair Bot? Insights from the Repairnator Project [source]

• Explainable Software Bot Contributions: Case Study of Automated Bug Fixes [source]

• A Software Repair Bot based on Continual Learning [source]

• FlexiRepair: Transparent Program Repair with Generic Patches [source]

• Automatic Generation of API Documentations for Open-Source Projects [source]

• Towards Detecting Inconsistent Comments in Java Source Code Automatically [source]

• MSRBot: Using bots to answer questions from software repositories [source]

• The Inconvenient Side of Software Bots on Pull Requests [source]

• Accelerating Software Engineering Research Adoption with Analysis Bots [source]

• Bot Detection in GitHub Repositories [source]

Software development process

• A Journey Towards Providing Intelligence and Actionable Insights to Development Teams in Software Delivery [source]

• An Additional Set of (Automated) Eyes: Chatbots for Agile Retrospectives [source]

• The effect of test case design in software testing bots [source]

• Challenges and guidelines on designing test cases for test bots [source]

• Artificial intelligence empowered domain modelling bot [source]

• DoMoBOT: a bot for automated and interactive domain modelling [source]

• MULAPI: A Tool for API Method and Usage Location Recommendation [source]

• AI on software engineering processes [source]

Q & A bots

• AnswerBot: Automated generation of answer summary to developers' technical questions [source]

• Among the Machines: Human-Bot Interaction on Social Q&A Websites [source]

• Chatbot development using Java tools and libraries [source]

• Chatbot4QR: Interactive Query Refinement for Technical Question Retrieval [source]

• APIBot: Question answering bot for API documentation [source]

• A Neural Question Answering System for Basic Questions about Subroutines [source]

• Automatic Extraction of Opinion-based Q&A from Online Developer Chats [source]

• Recommending Comprehensive Solutions for Programming Tasks by Mining Crowd Knowledge [source]

• TutorBot: Contextual Learning Guide for Software Engineers [source]

• Automatic Generation of Virtual Assistants from Databases using Active Ontologies [source]

Chatbots

• Dialogue Act Classification for Virtual Agents for Software Engineers during Debugging [source]

• Detecting Speech Act Types in Developer Question/Answer Conversations During Bug Repair [source]

• Exploring Context-Aware Conversational Agents in Software Development [source]

• A Conceptual Modeling Approach for the Rapid Development of Chatbots for Conversational Data Exploration [source]

• OpenAPI Bot: A Chatbot to Help You Understand REST APIs [source]

• Challenges in Chatbot Development: A Study of Stack Overflow Posts [source]

• Towards a better understanding of interactions with a domain modeling assistant [source]

• Conversational Bot for Newcomers Onboarding to Open Source Projects [source]

• iContractBot: A Chatbot for Smart Contracts' Specification and Code Generation [source]

• Towards Automating the Synthesis of Chatbots for Conversational Model Query [source]

• CrowDevBot: A Task-Oriented Conversational Bot for Software Crowdsourcing Platform [source]

Collaborative bots

• A Chatbot for Conflict Detection and Resolution [source]

• The rise of the (modelling) bots: Towards assisted modelling via social networks [source]

• Collaborative Modeling and Group Decision Making Using Chatbots in Social Networks [source]

• Assisted modelling over social networks with SOCIO [source]

• Towards Conversational Syntax for Domain-Specific Languages using Chatbots [source]

• Collaborative Modelling: Chatbots or On-Line Tools? An Experimental Study [source]

• Understanding Chatbot-mediated Task Management [source]

• Experiences Building an Answer Bot for Gitter [source]

• Building an Expert Recommender Chatbot [source]

• A Conversational User Interface for Software Visualization [source]

• *Thing: Improve Anything to Anything Collaboration [source]

• Chatbot implementation with Microsoft Bot Framework [source]

Voice bots

• Context-aware conversational developer assistants [source]

• Robin: A Voice Controlled Virtual Teammate for Software Developers and Teams [source]

• A Smart Advisor for Software Delivery - A Bot Framework for Awareness, Alerts and Advice [source]

• Adopting Conversational Interfaces for Exploring OSGi-Based Software Architectures in Augmented Reality [source]

• Identifying Usability Issues of Software Analytics Applications in Immersive Augmented Reality [source]

• Convo: What does conversational programming need? An exploration of machine learning interface design [source]

• Voice-Driven Modeling: Software Modeling Using Automated Speech Recognition [source]

Design features

• How Software Developers Mitigate Collaboration Friction with Chatbots [source]

• Beyond Dyadic Interactions: Considering Chatbots as Community Members [source]

• Towards Designing Conversational Agents for Pair Programming: Accounting for Creativity Strategies and Conversational Styles [source]

• An Empirical Study of Bots in Software Development – Characteristics and Challenges from a Practitioner's Perspective [source]

• A framework for understanding chatbots and their future [source]

• Enhancing developers’ support on pull requests activities with software bots [source]

• Perception and Acceptance of an Autonomous Refactoring Bot [source]

• BOTse: Bots in Software Engineering [source]

• Detecting and Characterizing Bots that Commit Code [source]

• Bot or not? Detecting bots in GitHub pull request activity based on comment similarity [source]

• Identifying bot activity in GitHub pull request and issue comments [source]

• A ground-truth dataset and classification model for detecting bots in GitHub issue and PR comments [source]