Motivations, Challenges, Best Practices, and Benefits for Bots and Conversational Agents in Software Engineering: A Multivocal Literature Review

S Lambiase, G Catolino, F Palomba… - ACM Computing …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Bots are software systems designed to support users by automating specific processes,
tasks, or activities. When these systems implement a conversational component to interact …

Predicting the first response latency of maintainers and contributors in pull requests

SH Khatoonabadi, A Abdellatif… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The success of a Pull Request (PR) depends on the responsiveness of the maintainers and
the contributor during the review process. Being aware of the expected waiting times can …

State‐of‐the‐practice in quality assurance in Java‐based open source software development

A Khatami, A Zaidman - Software: Practice and Experience, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
To ensure the quality of software systems, software engineers can make use of a variety of
quality assurance approaches, for example, software testing, modern code review …