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.
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%1 wyrich2020perception
%A Wyrich, Marvin
%A Hebig, Regina
%A Wagner, Stefan
%A Scandariato, Riccardo
%B Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
%D 2020
%I SciTePress
%K bots iste-se myown
%P 303-310
%R 10.5220/0009168803030310
%T Perception and Acceptance of an Autonomous Refactoring Bot
%U http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/Link.aspx?doi=10.5220/0009168803030310
%X 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.
%@ 978-989-758-395-7
@conference{wyrich2020perception,
abstract = {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.},
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author = {Wyrich, Marvin and Hebig, Regina and Wagner, Stefan and Scandariato, Riccardo},
biburl = {https://puma.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/bibtex/29d23cbab98f632ff2e0214811e1e4045/wagnerst},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
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pages = {303-310},
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timestamp = {2021-02-18T15:45:53.000+0100},
title = {Perception and Acceptance of an Autonomous Refactoring Bot},
url = {http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/Link.aspx?doi=10.5220/0009168803030310},
year = 2020
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