Don't Disturb Me: Challenges of Interacting with SoftwareBots on Open Source Software Projects
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| author | Wessel, Mairieli Wiese, Igor Steinmacher, Igor Gerosa, Marco A. |
| author_facet | Wessel, Mairieli Wiese, Igor Steinmacher, Igor Gerosa, Marco A. |
| contents | Software bots are used to streamline tasks in Open Source Software (OSS) projects' pull requests, saving development cost, time, and effort. However, their presence can be disruptive to the community. We identified several challenges caused by bots in pull request interactions by interviewing 21 practitioners, including project maintainers, contributors, and bot developers. In particular, our findings indicate noise as a recurrent and central problem. Noise affects both human communication and development workflow by overwhelming and distracting developers. Our main contribution is a theory of how human developers perceive annoying bot behaviors as noise on social coding platforms. This contribution may help practitioners understand the effects of adopting a bot, and researchers and tool designers may leverage our results to better support human-bot interaction on social coding platforms. |
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| spellingShingle | Don't Disturb Me: Challenges of Interacting with SoftwareBots on Open Source Software Projects Wessel, Mairieli Wiese, Igor Steinmacher, Igor Gerosa, Marco A. Software Engineering Software bots are used to streamline tasks in Open Source Software (OSS) projects' pull requests, saving development cost, time, and effort. However, their presence can be disruptive to the community. We identified several challenges caused by bots in pull request interactions by interviewing 21 practitioners, including project maintainers, contributors, and bot developers. In particular, our findings indicate noise as a recurrent and central problem. Noise affects both human communication and development workflow by overwhelming and distracting developers. Our main contribution is a theory of how human developers perceive annoying bot behaviors as noise on social coding platforms. This contribution may help practitioners understand the effects of adopting a bot, and researchers and tool designers may leverage our results to better support human-bot interaction on social coding platforms. |
| title | Don't Disturb Me: Challenges of Interacting with SoftwareBots on Open Source Software Projects |
| topic | Software Engineering |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13950 |