Recent research has shown feasibility of an interactive pair-programming conversational
agent, but implementing such an agent poses three challenges: a lack of benchmark …

The developments in conversational AI raised urgent questions about the future direction of
many aspects of society, including computing education. The first reactions to the fast-paced …

Software engineering bots–automated tools that handle tedious tasks–are increasingly used
by industrial and open source projects to improve developer productivity. Current research …

Abstract Machine Learning (ML) applied to Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and chatbot
interfaces can generate significant value for many business processes. However, these …

Robotic process automation (RPA) has emerged as the leading approach to automate tasks
in business processes. Moving away from back-end automation, RPA automated the mouse …

Software bots are applications that integrate their work with humans' tasks, serving as
conduits between users and other tools. Due to their ability to automate tasks, bots have …

Software repositories contain a plethora of useful information that can be used to enhance
software projects. Prior work has leveraged repository data to improve many aspects of the …

This paper presents the results of a research work that aimed at investigating the usage of
softbots–as digital intelligent software assistants–as a supporting technology to help in …

Business process automation is a booming multi-billion-dollar industry that promises to
remove menial tasks from workers' plates--through the introduction of autonomous agents …

Even though load testing is an established technique to assess load-related quality
properties of software systems, it is applied only seldom and with questionable results …