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Line 6: Software bots are typically used to execute tasks, suggest actions, engage in dialogue, and promote social and cultural aspects of a software project.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/09/17/meet-the-bots-that-help-moderate-stack-overflow/\|title=Meet the Bots that Help Moderate Stack Overflow\|last=Team\|first=The SOBotics\|date=2019-09-17\|website=Stack Overflow Blog\|language=en-US\|access-date=2019-11-22}}</ref> The term ''bot'' is derived from [[robot]]. However, robots act in the physical world and software bots act only in digital spaces.<ref name="LebeufZagalsky2019"/> Some software bots are designed and behave as [[chatbot]]s, but not all [[chatbot]]s are software bots~~. Erlenhov et al~~.<ref name="Erlenhov2019">{{Cite book\|last1=Erlenhov\|first1=Linda\|last2=Gomes de Oliveira Neto\|first2=Francisco\|last3=Scandariato\|first3=Riccardo\|last4=Leitner\|first4=Philipp\|title=2019 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE) \|chapter=Current and Future Bots in Software Development \|year=2019~~\|chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8823643~~\|___location=Montreal, QC, Canada\|publisher=IEEE\|pages=7–11\|doi=10.1109/BotSE.2019.00009\|isbn=978-1-7281-2262-5\|s2cid=195065273}}</ref> ~~discuss~~Discussions about the past and future of software bots ~~and~~ show that software bots have been adopted for many years. == Usage == Line 54: Software bots may not be well accepted by humans. A study from the [[University of Antwerp]]<ref name="MurgiaJanssens2016">{{cite book\|last1=Murgia\|first1=Alessandro\|last2=Janssens\|first2=Daan\|last3=Demeyer\|first3=Serge\|last4=Vasilescu\|first4=Bogdan\|title=Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems \|chapter=Among the Machines \|year=2016\|pages=1272–1279\|doi=10.1145/2851581.2892311\|isbn=9781450340823\|s2cid=13026142}}</ref> has compared how developers active on Stack Overflow perceive answers generated by software bots. They find that developers perceive the quality of software bot-generated answers to be significantly worse if the identity of the software bot is made apparent. By contrast, answers from software bots with human-like identity were better received. In practice, when software bots are used on platforms like GitHub or Wikipedia, their username makes it clear that they are bots, e.g., DependaBot, RenovateBot, DatBot, SineBot. Bots may be subject to special rules. For instance, the GitHub terms of service<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-of-service\|title=GitHub Terms of Service - GitHub Help\|website=help.github.com\|access-date=2019-11-22}}</ref> does not allow ~~`bot`~~'bots' but accepts `'machine account`', where a `'machine account`' has two properties: 1) a human takes full responsibility of the bot's actions 2) it cannot create other accounts. == See also ==