A Network Perspective on the Influence of Code Review Bots on the Structure of Developer CollaborationsRegistered Report
\textbf{Background:} Despite a growing body of literature on the impact of software bots on open-source software development teams, their effects on team communication, coordination, and collaboration practices are not well understood.\r\nBots can have negative consequences such as producing information overload or reducing interactions between developers.\r\n\r\n\textbf{Objective:} The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of specific GitHub Actions on the collaboration networks of Open Source Software teams, using a network-analytic approach.\r\nThe study will focus on Code Review bots, one of the most frequently implemented types of bots.\r\n\r\n\textbf{Method:} Fine-grained, time-stamped data of co-editing networks, developer-file contribution networks, as well as workflow runs and git commit logs will be obtained from a large sample of GitHub repositories.\r\nThis will allow us to study how bots affect the collaboration networks of developers over time.\r\nBy using a more representative sample of GitHub repositories than previous studies, which includes projects whose sizes span the whole range of Open Source communities, this study will provide generalizable results and updated findings on the general usage and distribution of GitHub Actions.\r\nWith this study, we aim to contribute to advancing our knowledge of human-bot interaction and the effects of support tools on software engineering teams.
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15:45 - 17:15 | Registered Reports / Conference closingRegistered Reports / Research Track at Meeting Room 103 Chair(s): Maria Teresa Baldassarre Department of Computer Science, University of Bari | ||
15:45 15mTalk | Deconstructing Sentimental Stack Overflow Posts Through Interviews: Exploring the Case of Software TestingRegistered Report Registered Reports Pre-print | ||
16:00 15mTalk | A Perspective on the Role of Human Behaviors in Software Development: Voice and SilenceRegistered Report Registered Reports Mary Sánchez-Gordón Østfold University College, Ricardo Colomo-Palacios Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Muhammad Azeem Akbar LUT University, Monica Kristiansen Holone Østfold University College Link to publication DOI Pre-print | ||
16:15 15mTalk | A Network Perspective on the Influence of Code Review Bots on the Structure of Developer CollaborationsRegistered Report Registered Reports Leonore Röseler Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Ingo Scholtes Chair of Computer Science XV - Machine Learning for Complex Networks, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Christoph Gote Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich Pre-print | ||
16:30 30mPanel | Discussion and feedback on registered protocols Registered Reports S: Raula Gaikovina Kula Nara Institute of Science and Technology, S: Marcos Kalinowski Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), S: Helen Sharp The Open University, S: Rashina Hoda Monash University | ||
17:00 15mDay closing | Conference closing & Awards ceremony Research Track Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University |