Summary of the 2nd International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE 2020)

Abstract

Bots automate many tasks in software engineering projects often in the form of chatbots. Bots have been proposed, for example, for testing, maintenance, or automating bug fixes. Following the success of the first BotSE workshop, we organized this second edition collocated with ICSE 2020 to bring together the research community that investigates bots for software engineering. Specifically, the workshop's goal was to share experiences and challenges, discuss new types of bots, and map out future directions. The workshop program comprised the presentation of 8 papers and 2 keynotes, followed by extensive discussion. Overall, the community matured by discussing how to design, build, and evaluate bots. The community aims to organise a 3rd edition of the workshop. Website: http://botse.org/