Guidelines for Developing Bots for GitHub

Mairieli Wessel; Andy Zaidman; Marco A. Gerosa; Igor Steinmacher

doi:10.1109/MS.2022.3224813

Guidelines for Developing Bots for GitHub

Mairieli Wessel
, Andy Zaidman
, Marco A. Gerosa
, Igor Steinmacher

Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, School of

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3 Scopus citations

Abstract

Projects on GitHub rely on the automation provided by software development bots. Nevertheless, the presence of bots can be annoying and disruptive to the community. Backed by multiple studies with practitioners, this article provides guidelines for developing and maintaining software bots.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	72-79
Number of pages	8
Journal	IEEE Software
Volume	40
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2022.3224813
State	Published - May 1 2023

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