Together or Apart? Investigating a mediator bot to aggregate bot's comments on pull requests
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| author | Ribeiro, Eric Nascimento, Ronan Steinmacher, Igor Xavier, Laerte Gerosa, Marco de Paula, Hugo Wessel, Mairieli |
| author_facet | Ribeiro, Eric Nascimento, Ronan Steinmacher, Igor Xavier, Laerte Gerosa, Marco de Paula, Hugo Wessel, Mairieli |
| contents | Software bots connect users and tools, streamlining the pull request review process in social coding platforms. However, bots can introduce information overload into developers' communication. Information overload is especially problematic for newcomers, who are still exploring the project and may feel overwhelmed by the number of messages. Inspired by the literature of other domains, we designed and evaluated FunnelBot, a bot that acts as a mediator between developers and other bots in the repository. We conducted a within-subject study with 25 newcomers to capture their perceptions and preferences. Our results provide insights for bot developers who want to mitigate noise and create bots for supporting newcomers, laying a foundation for designing better bots. |
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| institution | arXiv |
| publishDate | 2022 |
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| spellingShingle | Together or Apart? Investigating a mediator bot to aggregate bot's comments on pull requests Ribeiro, Eric Nascimento, Ronan Steinmacher, Igor Xavier, Laerte Gerosa, Marco de Paula, Hugo Wessel, Mairieli Software Engineering Software bots connect users and tools, streamlining the pull request review process in social coding platforms. However, bots can introduce information overload into developers' communication. Information overload is especially problematic for newcomers, who are still exploring the project and may feel overwhelmed by the number of messages. Inspired by the literature of other domains, we designed and evaluated FunnelBot, a bot that acts as a mediator between developers and other bots in the repository. We conducted a within-subject study with 25 newcomers to capture their perceptions and preferences. Our results provide insights for bot developers who want to mitigate noise and create bots for supporting newcomers, laying a foundation for designing better bots. |
| title | Together or Apart? Investigating a mediator bot to aggregate bot's comments on pull requests |
| topic | Software Engineering |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01624 |