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The Present and Future of Bots in Software Engineering

Software Engineering 2024-01-24 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

We are witnessing a massive adoption of software engineering bots, applications that react to events triggered by tools and messages posted by users and run automated tasks in response, in a variety of domains. This thematic issues describes experiences and challenges with these bots.

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@article{arxiv.2207.01254,
  title  = {The Present and Future of Bots in Software Engineering},
  author = {Emad Shihab and Stefan Wagner and Marco A. Gerosa and Mairieli Wessel and Jordi Cabot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.01254},
  year   = {2024}
}

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5 pages, to be published in IEEE Software

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