MSR 2020
Mon 29 - Tue 30 June 2020
co-located with ICSE 2020
Tue 30 Jun 2020 10:45 - 10:52 at MSR:Zoom2 - Apps & Bots Chair(s): Ivano Malavolta

Background: Some developer activity traditionally performed manually, such as making code commits, opening, managing, or closing issues is increasingly subject to automation in many OSS projects. Specifically, such activity is often performed by tools that react to events or run at specific times. We refer to such automation tools as bots and, in many software mining scenarios related to developer productivity or code quality it is desirable to identify bots in order to separate their actions from actions of individuals. Aim: Find an automated way of identifying bots and code committed by these bots, and to characterize the types of bots based on their activity patterns.
Method and Result: We propose BIMAN, a systematic approach to detect bots using author names, commit messages, files modified by the commit, and projects associated with the commits. For our test data, the value for AUC-ROC was 0.9. We also characterized these bots based on the time patterns of their code commits and the types of files modified, and found that they primarily work with documentation files and web pages, and these files are most prevalent in HTML and JavaScript ecosystems. We have compiled a shareable dataset containing detailed information about 461 bots we found (all of whom have more than 1000 commits) and 14,678,222 commits they created.

Tue 30 Jun

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10:30 - 11:00
Apps & BotsTechnical Papers / Registered Reports / Keynote / MSR Awards / FOSS Award / Education / Data Showcase / Mining Challenge / MSR Challenge Proposals / Ask Me Anything at MSR:Zoom2
Chair(s): Ivano Malavolta Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Q/A & Discussion of Session Papers over Zoom (Joining info available on Slack)

10:30
7m
Live Q&A
AndroZooOpen: Collecting Large-scale Open Source Android Apps for the Research CommunityMSR - Data Showcase
Data Showcase
A: Pei Liu , A: Li Li Monash University, Australia, A: Yanjie Zhao , A: Xiaoyu Sun , A: John Grundy Monash University
Media Attached
10:37
7m
Live Q&A
Hall-of-Apps: The Top Android Apps Metadata ArchiveMSR - Data Showcase
Data Showcase
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10:45
7m
Live Q&A
Detecting and Characterizing Bots that Commit CodeMSR - Technical Paper
Technical Papers
Tapajit Dey , Sara Mousavi , Eduardo Ponce University of Tennessee - Knoxville, Tanner Fry , Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University, Anna Filippova , Audris Mockus University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Pre-print Media Attached
10:52
7m
Live Q&A
Challenges in Chatbot Development: A Study of Stack Overflow PostsMSR - Technical Paper
Technical Papers
Ahmad Abdellatif Concordia University, Diego Costa Concordia University, Canada, Khaled Badran Concordia University, Rabe Abdalkareem Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Emad Shihab Concordia University
Pre-print Media Attached