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MSRBot: Using bots to answer questions from software repositories by Ahmad Abdellatif; Khaled Badran; Emad Shihab is a Computer Science article available to read on EtoBox.

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Software repositories contain a plethora of useful information that can be used to enhance software projects. Prior work has leveraged repository data to improve many aspects of the software development process, such as, help extract requirement decisions, identify potentially defective code and improve maintenance and evolution. However, in many cases, project stakeholders are not able to fully benefit from their software repositories due to the fact that they need special expertise to mine their repositories. Also, extracting and linking data from different types of repositories (e.g., source code control and bug repositories) requires dedicated effort and time, even if the stakeholder has the expertise to perform such a task. Therefore, in this paper, we use bots to automate and ease the process of extracting useful information from software repositories. Particularly, we lay out an approach of how bots, layered on top of software repositories, can be used to answer some of the most common software development/maintenance questions facing developers. We perform a preliminary study with 12 participants to validate the effectiveness of the bot. Our findings indicate that using bot

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Author

Ahmad Abdellatif; Khaled Badran; Emad Shihab

Publisher

Springer US; Springer-Verlag; Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1382-3256)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Computer Science (Physical Sciences)