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Perception and acceptance of an autonomous refactoring bot
Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2020-02
Sprache
English
TORE-URI
Volume
1
Start Page
303
End Page
310
Citation
International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2020)
Contribution to Conference
Scopus ID
ISBN of container
978-989758395-7
The use of autonomous bots for automatic support in software development tasks is increasing. In the past, however, they were not always perceived positively and sometimes experienced a negative bias compared to their human counterparts. We conducted a qualitative study in which we deployed an autonomous refactoring bot for 41 days in a student software development project. In between and at the end, we conducted semi-structured interviews to find out how developers perceive the bot and whether they are more or less critical when reviewing the contributions of a bot compared to human contributions. Our findings show that the bot was perceived as a useful and unobtrusive contributor, and developers were no more critical of it than they were about their human colleagues, but only a few team members felt responsible for the bot.
Subjects
Collaborative Development
Human Agent Interaction
Refactoring
Software Bot
Software Engineering