Bots already have a strong presence in open source projects, helping contributors in their maintenance. Mostly, automating repetitive tasks. See a list of bots in software development. I think their importance will keep growing. In fact, I believe they could play a...
I’m a visual person. I prefer to use graphical tools whenever possible. This also applies to the management of my (humble) code contributions to the research team tools, all of them hosted on GitHub. So far, I’ve been using SourceTree as Git client to...
As part of the 2nd International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE 2020), I gave the keynote “Lessons learned from building a commercial bot development platform” where I discussed some of the key aspects we have learned while building our...
What if your software project loses the best developer? Who is the developer you can get rid of? I bet these are questions that all project managers ask themselves several times during the lifecycle of a software project. Developers are valuable resources for any...
A long time ago, Greg Wilson recommended reading The Discussion book: 50 great ways to get people talking. In fact, he went even further and proposed a research challenge to the Sofware Engineering / Computer Support Cooperative Work communities: score existing...
