Table 1. Identified bots and a sample of tools evaluated as automation tools.

Numbers refer to checkpoints in the flow-chart in Fig. 2. Question marks represent checkpoints that we could not answer due to limited information about the corresponding tool.

Name	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	Evaluation
Whitesource-bot-for-Github	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Bot
Greenkeeper	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	–	Bot
Dependabot	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	–	Bot
Renovate bot	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	–	Bot
Pyup bot	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	–	Bot
imgbot	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	–	Bot
DPE bot	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	–	Bot
Snyk bot	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	–	Bot
Depfu	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	–	Bot
Scala Steward	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	–	Bot
fs-lms-test-bot	No	–	–	–	–	–	Not related
Bors	Yes	?	Yes	–	–	–	Automation
docker-library-bot	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	–	Automation
Siteleaf	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Automation
JHipster bot	Yes	?	–	–	–	–	Undetermined