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BIMAN
Introduced by Tapajit Dey et al. in Detecting and Characterizing Bots that Commit Code
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BIMAN, or Bot Identification by commit Message, commit Association, and author Name, is a technique to detect bots that commit code. It is comprised of three methods that consider independent aspects of the commits made by a particular author: 1) Commit Message: Identify if commit messages are being generated from templates; 2) Commit Association: Predict if an author is a bot using a random forest model, with features related to files and projects associated with the commits as predictors; and 3) Author Name: Match author’s name and email to common bot patterns.
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Detecting and Characterizing Bots that Commit Code 2 Mar 2020 · 2 repositories · arXiv:2003.03172
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