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Recognizing Bot Activity in Collaborative Software Development

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Using popular open source projects on GitHub, we provide evidence that bots are regularly among the most active contributors, even though GitHub does not explicitly acknowledge their presence. This poses… Click to show full abstract

Using popular open source projects on GitHub, we provide evidence that bots are regularly among the most active contributors, even though GitHub does not explicitly acknowledge their presence. This poses a problem for techniques that analyze human contributor activity.

Keywords: software; bot activity; activity; recognizing bot; collaborative software; activity collaborative

Journal Title: IEEE Software
Year Published: 2022

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