week 7: scientific paper proposal #2532
Merged
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
Assignment Proposal
Title
A Case Study of Developer Bots: Motivations, Perceptions, and Challenges
Names and KTH ID
Deadline
Category
Description
The paper examines 23 developer bots used in Microsoft's CI/CD workflows, aiding thousands of developers across 13,000 repositories. These bots, categorized into configuration, security, data privacy, productivity, and code quality, help automate tasks and provide early feedback to developer actions; through interviews, surveys, as well as the analysis of hundreds of thousands of bot actions, the authors' study explores the motivations, benefits and challenges of using these bots, such as managing excessive feedback (noise), among others.
Relevance
The study in hand is highly relevant to DevOps, examining how developer bots automate tasks in CI/CD pipelines to improve code quality, productivity, among other key goals of the area. Besides delineating how these bots streamline workflows and support the "shift left" approach, the paper also highlights core challenges: managing multiple bots, and prioritizing feedback, critical for maintaining efficiency in large-scale environments.