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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|chatbots]], but not all [[chatbot|chatbots]] are software bots. Erlenhov et al.<ref name="ErlenhovGomes de Oliveira Neto2019Erlenhov2019">{{citeCite bookjournal|last1last=Erlenhov|first1first=Linda|title=2019 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE)|last2=Gomes de Oliveira Neto|first2=Francisco|last3=Scandariato|first3=Riccardo|last4=Leitner|first4=Philipp|chapteryear=2019|title=Current and Future Bots in Software Development|yearurl=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8823643/|journal=2019 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE)|___location=Montreal, QC, Canada|publisher=IEEE|pages=7–11|doi=10.1109/BotSE.2019.00009|isbn=978-1-7281-2262-5}}</ref> discuss the past and future of software bots and show that software bots have been adopted for many years.

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