| Title: |
Perception and Acceptance of an Autonomous Refactoring Bot |
| Authors: |
Wyrich, Marvin, Hebig, Regina, Wagner, Stefan, Scandariato, Riccardo |
| Publication Year: |
2020 |
| Collection: |
Computer Science |
| Subject Terms: |
Computer Science - Software Engineering, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction |
| More Details: |
The use of autonomous bots for automatic support in software development tasks is increasing. In the past, however, they were not always perceived positively and sometimes experienced a negative bias compared to their human counterparts. We conducted a qualitative study in which we deployed an autonomous refactoring bot for 41 days in a student software development project. In between and at the end, we conducted semi-structured interviews to find out how developers perceive the bot and whether they are more or less critical when reviewing the contributions of a bot compared to human contributions. Our findings show that the bot was perceived as a useful and unobtrusive contributor, and developers were no more critical of it than they were about their human colleagues, but only a few team members felt responsible for the bot.
Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures. To be published at 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2020) |
| Document Type: |
Working Paper |
| DOI: |
10.5220/0009168803030310 |
| Access URL: |
http://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02553 |
| Accession Number: |
edsarx.2001.02553 |
| Database: |
arXiv |
