Are Software Engineers Incentivized Enough? An Outcome based Incentive Framework using Tokens

Singi, Kapil; Kaulgud, Vikrant; Bose, R. P. Jagadeesh Chandra; Choudhury, Swapnajeet Gon; Podder, Sanjay; Burden, Adam P.

doi:10.1109/iwbose50093.2020.9050262

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“…Bubbles' sizes represent the frequency of studies that fall within these intersections (The total number of studies in this map overcomes the number of selected studies, because one study, in specific, [30] refers to more than one topic). Inspired by SWEBOK, we classified the selected studies into 8 categories, namely, (i) software requirements [43], (ii) software engineering process [30,[44][45][46], (iii) software testing [47,48], (iv) software quality [49][50][51], (v) software maintenance [29], (vi) software configuration management [30,41,52], (vii) software engineering management [37,42,[53][54][55][56], and (viii) professional practice [57][58][59]. We briefly describe the SE applications below.…”

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“…Transparency and trust. Distributed teams operate within their own boundaries, which hinders a 360-degree view over the entire software development lifecycle [59]. For instance, distributed teams record compliance-related data in their local repositories [53].…”

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“…For instance, smart contracts can be used to automatically verify that tests passed [44,45], and to verify the compliance of SDLC activities to best practices and policies, e.g., security vulnerabilities compliance and thirdparty license compliance. Additionally, smart contracts can automatically reward software engineers once they have completed their tasks and passed the criteria encoded in smart contracts via digital coins [45] or tokens [59]. The increased automation has positive impacts on the speed, quality, and efficiency of the software development process.…”

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“…Singi et al [59] proposed a blockchain-based incentive framework to ensure transparent incentives to software engineers who contribute to any activities throughout the entire software lifecycle: pre-development, development, post-development. The framework captures events and assets' metadata from the distributed software delivery ecosystem and analyzes these events according to incentive policies.…”

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Software Engineering Applications Enabled by Blockchain Technology: A Systematic Mapping Study

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The novel, yet disruptive blockchain technology has witnessed growing attention, due to its intrinsic potential. Besides the conventional domains that benefit from such potential, such as finance, supply chain and healthcare, blockchain use cases in software engineering have emerged recently. In this study, we aim to contribute to the body of knowledge of blockchain-oriented software engineering by providing an adequate overview of the software engineering applications enabled by blockchain technology. To do so, we carried out a systematic mapping study and identified 22 primary studies. Then, we extracted data within the research type, research topic and contribution type facets. Findings suggest an increasing trend of studies since 2018. Additionally, findings reveal the potential of using blockchain technologies as an alternative to centralized systems, such as GitHub, Travis CI, and cloud-based package managers, and also to establish trust between parties in collaborative software development. We also found out that smart contracts can enable the automation of a variety of software engineering activities that usually require human reasoning, such as the acceptance phase, payments to software engineers, and compliance adherence. In spite of the fact that the field is not yet mature, we believe that this systematic mapping study provides a holistic overview that may benefit researchers interested in bringing blockchain to the software industry, and practitioners willing to understand how blockchain can transform the software development industry.

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“…These studies focused on improving different aspects of the software lifecycle and contributed to software being built in a reliable, transparent, and auditable manner. 20 Despite these promising contributions, the BC-enabled SE field is still emerging and further research efforts are required. 11 In this study, the authors aim to contribute to this field by presenting a BC-enabled framework for RT in interorganizational software projects.…”

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Blockchain for requirements traceability: A qualitative approach

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Kristiansen

2022

J Software Evolu Process

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Blockchain technology has emerged as a “disruptive innovation” that has received significant attention in academic and organizational settings. However, most of the existing research is focused on technical issues of blockchain systems, overlooking the organizational perspective. This study adopted a grounded theory to unveil the blockchain implementation process in organizations from the lens of blockchain experts. The results revealed three main categories: key activities, success factors, and challenges related to blockchain implementation in organizations, the latter being identified as the core category, along with 17 other concepts. Findings suggested that the majority of blockchain projects stop at the pilot stage and outlined organizational resistance to change as the core challenge. According to the experts, the following factors contribute to the organizational resistance to change: innovation–production gap, conservative management, and centralized mentality. The study aims to contribute to the existing blockchain literature by providing a holistic and domain‐agnostic view of the blockchain implementation process in organizational settings. This can potentially encourage the development and implementation of blockchain solutions and guide practitioners who are interested in leveraging the inherent benefits of this technology. In addition, the results are used to improve a blockchain‐enabled requirements traceability framework proposed in our previous paper.

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