A Case Study of Developer Bots: Motivations, Perceptions, and Challenges

Continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) is now a widely adopted development model in practice as it reduces the time from ideas to customers. This adoption has also revived the idea of "shifting left" during software development -- a practice intended to find and prevent defects early in the software delivery process. To assist with that, engineering systems integrate developer bots in the development workflow to improve developer productivity and help them identify issues early in the software delivery process.