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A curated list of awesome SE bots :robot:
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# Awesome SE Bots [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)



A curated list of awesome Software Engineering bots (SE bots). 



## Table of Contents

- [Bots](#bots) 

    - [Probot bots](#probot)

    - [Software company/community bots](#software)

- [Publications](#publications)

    - [Scientific Articles](#articles)

    - [Blog Posts](#posts)

  

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## Bots

### Probot bots



*GitHub apps built with [Probot](https://probot.github.io/)*



* [Work In Progress](https://github.com/wip/app) - Prevent merging of pull requests with "WIP" in the title



* [Stale](https://github.com/probot/stale) - Close stale issue and pull request 



* [Delete merged branch](https://github.com/svanboxel/delete-merged-branch) - The bot automatically deletes a branch after it's merged



* [Developer Certificate of Origin](https://github.com/probot/dco) - Enforce the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) on pull requests



* [Request Info](https://github.com/behaviorbot/request-info) - Requests more info on issues and pull requests with the default title or an empty body



* [Sentiment Bot](https://probot.github.io/apps/sentiment-bot/) - Analyzes the sentiment of comments posted on GitHub, and leaves a comment with a custom message in response to toxic message to help enforce code of conducts. 



* [GrammarlyBot](https://github.com/apps/grammarly-bot) - This bot automatically improves grammar and spellings in your README.md files



### Software company/community bots



*Github bots implemented by software companies or communities*



* [Rust high-five](https://github.com/rust-highfive) - The bot's main task is welcoming new contributors and assigning reviewers



* [Refactoring-Bot](https://github.com/Refactoring-Bot/Refactoring-Bot) - Suggests automatic code smell refactorings via pull requests



* [MergeResolver](https://blogs.grammatech.com/mergeresolver-automatic-merge-conflict-resolution) - Automates resolving merge conflicts



* [imgbot](https://github.com/marketplace/imgbot) - Automatically optimize images in your repository



## Publications



### Scientific Articles



The below is a list of peer-reviewed papers related to bots, and bots applied

to software engineering. In addition to this list, you can also consult the

paper repository maintained by BotSE (see [link](http://papers.botse.org/home)). 



*Motivation for bots in SE*



[Disrupting Developer Productivity One Bot at a Time](https://alexeyza.com/pdf/fse-var2016.pdf)



[Software Developer's Perceptions of productivity](http://thomas-zimmermann.com/publications/files/meyer-fse-2014.pdf)



[Bots Mind the Social-Technical Gap](https://dl.eusset.eu/bitstream/20.500.12015/2929/1/paper_14.pdf)



*Bot Taxonomies*



[A Taxonomy of Software Bots: Towards a Deeper Understanding of Software Bot Characteristics](https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/bitstream/handle/1828/10004/Lebeuf_Carlene_MASc_2018.pdf)



[Current and Future Bots in Software Development](https://doi.org/10.1109/BotSE.2019.00009)



[A framework for understanding chatbots and their future](https://doi.org/10.1145/3195836.3195859)



[Is it an Agent, or Just a Program? A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stan_Franklin/publication/221457111_Is_it_an_Agent_or_Just_a_Program_A_Taxonomy_for_Autonomous_Agents/links/0f317530ba440e7979000000/Is-it-an-Agent-or-Just-a-Program-A-Taxonomy-for-Autonomous-Agents.pdf)



*Empirical research on Bots*



[The Power of Bots: Understanding Bots in OSS Projects](http://igorwiese.com/images/papers/CSCW2018.pdf)



*Do developers trust / accept bot contributions?*



[Among the Machines: Human-Bot Interaction on Social Q&A Websites](https://cmustrudel.github.io/papers/chi16bot.pdf)



[Sorry to Bother you: Designing Bots for Effective Recommendations](https://doi.org/10.1109/BotSE.2019.00021)



[Perception and Acceptance of an Autonomous Refactoring Bot](https://doi.org/10.5220/0009168803030310)



[Bots Don't Mind Waiting, Do They? Comparing the Interaction With Automatically and Manually Created Pull Requests](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03591)



*Papers that describe Bot implementations or concepts*



[Repairnator patches programs automatically](https://doi.org/10.1145/3349589)



[Caring for Vincent: A Chatbot for Self-Compassion](https://minha-lee.github.io/files/lee_vincent_chatbot_CHI2019.pdf)



[MSRBot: Using Bots to Answer Questions from Software Repositories](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.06991.pdf)



[Buildbot: Robotic monitoring of agile software development teams](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=4415217)



[A Conversational User Interface for Software Visualization](https://doi.org/10.1109/VISSOFT.2017.21)



[Adopting Conversational interfaces for exploring OSGi-based software architectures in augmented reality](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3338683)



[An additional set of (automated) eyes: chatbots for agile retrospectives](https://doi.org/10.1109/BotSE.2019.00017)



[Towards an autonomous bots for automatic source code refactoring](https://doi.org/10.1109/BotSE.2019.00015)



[Should I Stale or Should I Close? An Analysis of a Bot That Closes Abandoned Issues and Pull Requests](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8823598)



*Design Principles for Bots (Conversational or Other)*



[How to design a program repair bot?: Insights from the repairnator project](https://doi.org/10.1145/3183519.3183540)



[Towards s/engineer/bot: Principles for Program Repair Bots](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rvantond/pdfs/botse-position-paper-2019.pdf)



*Ethical Challenges*



[The rise of Social Bots](https://doi.org/10.1145/2818717)



*Theoretical background on bots*



[Functional imaging of `Theory of Mind`](https://doi.org/10.1016/S1364-6613(02)00025-6)



[The Media Equation: How people Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=236605)



### Blog Posts



*Blog posts discussing GitHub bots*



* [Best bots to improve your software development process](https://livablesoftware.com/best-bots-software-development/)



## Contributing

Your contributions are more than welcome! 



Please take a look at the [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) first.