[2208.01624] Together or Apart? Investigating a mediator bot to aggregate bot's comments on pull requests
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[Submitted on 2 Aug 2022 (v1), last revised 8 Aug 2022 (this version, v2)]

Title:Together or Apart? Investigating a mediator bot to aggregate bot's comments on pull requests

Authors:Eric Ribeiro, Ronan Nascimento, Igor Steinmacher, Laerte Xavier, Marco Gerosa, Hugo de Paula, Mairieli Wessel
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Abstract: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.
Comments: 5 pages, to be published at the New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) Track of ICSME 2022
Subjects: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
Cite as: arXiv:2208.01624 [cs.SE]
  (or arXiv:2208.01624v2 [cs.SE] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2208.01624
Journal reference: NIER track of the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2022)
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSME55016.2022.00054

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From: Mairieli Wessel [view email]
[v1] Tue, 2 Aug 2022 17:55:00 UTC (950 KB)
[v2] Mon, 8 Aug 2022 12:00:36 UTC (950 KB)
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