logseq/pages/Omnivore___30-11-2023___Realising synergy for bots and engineers - Office of Research.md

• full-title:: Realising synergy for bots and engineers | Office of Research site:: Office of Research labels:: PROJECTS/MOSAICO date-saved:: 30-11-2023 date-published:: 09-02-2023 date-archived:: 10-01-2024 is-archived:: 10 source:: Omnivore state:: archived

  • Highlights

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      worldwide shortage of skilled data scientists and software engineers. ⤴️

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      software today is everywhere; ⤴️

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      demand for skilled software engineers. ⤴️

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      technologies continue to advance at a rapid pace. ⤴️

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      advancement increases the complexity of software systems built on top of these technologies. ⤴️

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      complexity, in turn, increases the demand for software engineers with the necessary skills to handle the different technologies and their interactions. ⤴️

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      TrustedSEERS ⤴️

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      Trusted Software Engineering Expert AdvisoRs ⤴️

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      trusted automation bots to act as concierges and interactive advisors ⤴️

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      “SA seeks to automate software engineering tasks [and] has introduced novel and specialised AI-based solutions that analyse and learn from software engineers’ activity data (software artefacts). ⤴️

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      high availability of data in closed and open-source software repositories ⤴️

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      “There is too much material and information to read. ⤴️

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      “SA can help software engineers by 'digesting' much of the data available in many repositories and making recommendations that can help software engineers in making constant, urgent and trusted upgrades to software systems and applications.” ⤴️

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      Much more improvement can potentially be gained by focusing on data-centric innovations.” ⤴️

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      “Better data corresponds to data that is more comprehensive (contains all helpful information and covers all essential cases), is relevant to a task at hand, is accessible (transformed to a representation that is more amenable to AI learning), and is labelled more consistently and accurately,” ⤴️

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      link and transform data from diverse software artefacts and harness them to learn effective SA solutions.” ⤴️

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      Intelligent and trustworthy ⤴️

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      trust in the automated bots ⤴️

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      “Two sets of factors may affect a software engineer’s trust in an SA solution: intrinsic (the solution engenders trust by being able to provide explanations for its outputs); and extrinsic (the solution abides by regulations set by external authorities and is robust to external attacks). Both have not been addressed much in SA research. ⤴️

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      The lack of explanations limits the trust that software engineers have in these recommendations and can hamper the adoption of SA solutions ⤴️

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      “Yes. Many software artefacts are low-quality (they contain bugs and even security vulnerabilities) or outdated (they are using older technologies that are not optimal) ⤴️

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      “The SA solution that we want to build needs to be able to identify such low-quality and outdated data so that the output it produces does not introduce trustworthiness issues.” ⤴️

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      autonomous bots and engineers working together productively to build high-quality software for the betterment of industry and society ⤴️