The use of autonomous bots for automatic support in software development tasks is increasing. In the past, however, they were not always perceived positively and sometimes experienced a negative bias compared to their human counterparts. We conducted a qualitative study in which we deployed an autonomous refactoring bot for 41 days in a student software development project. In between and at the end, we conducted semi-structured interviews to find out how developers perceive the bot and whether they are more or less critical when reviewing the contributions of a bot compared to human contributions. Our findings show that the bot was perceived as a useful and unobtrusive contributor, and developers were no more critical of it than they were about their human colleagues, but only a few team members felt responsible for the bot.

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对自主重构机器人的感知和接受

在软件开发任务中使用自主机器人进行自动支持的情况正在增加。然而，在过去，与人类同行相比，他们并不总是被积极地看待，有时会经历消极的偏见。我们进行了一项定性研究，在该研究中，我们在学生软件开发项目中部署了 41 天的自主重构机器人。在中间和最后，我们进行了半结构化访谈，以了解开发人员如何看待机器人，以及与人类贡献相比，他们在审查机器人的贡献时是否更重要或不那么重要。我们的研究结果表明，机器人被认为是一个有用且不引人注目的贡献者，开发人员对其的批评并不比他们对人类同事的批评更严重，但只有少数团队成员认为对机器人负责。