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

Demi, Selina; Colomo‐Palacios, Ricardo; Sánchez‐Gordón, Mary

doi:10.3390/app11072960

Cited by 16 publications

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“…Several recent empirical studies on Blockchain used GitHub data. There have been several systematic literature reviews that discussed the ongoing software engineering-related research regarding blockchain-based software development [16,35]. This includes testing and analysis of smart contracts, performance and security of DApp, analyzing architecture types used during the blockchainbased software development, etc.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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An Empirical Study of Blockchain Repositories in GitHub

Das,

Uddin,

Ruhe

2022

Preprint

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Blockchain is a distributed ledger technique that guarantees the traceability of transactions. Blockchain is adopted in multiple domains like finance (e.g., cryptocurrency), healthcare, security, and supply chain. In the open-source software (OSS) portal GitHub, we observe a growing adoption of Blockchain-based solutions. Given the rapid emergence of Blockchain-based solutions in our daily life and the evolving cryptocurrency market, it is important to know the status quo, how developers generally interact in those repos, and how much freedom they have in applying code changes. We report an empirical study of 3,664 Blockchain software repositories from GitHub. We divide the Blockchain repositories into two categories: Tool (e.g., SDKs) and Applications (e.g., service/solutions developed using SDKs). The Application category is further divided into two sub-categories: Crypto and Non-Crypto applications. In all Blockchain repository categories, the contribution interactions on commits are the most common interaction type. We found that more organizations contributing to the Blockchain repos than individual users. The median numbers of internal and external users in tools are higher than the application repos. We observed a higher degree of collaboration (e.g., for maintenance efforts) among users in Blockchain tools than those in the application repos. Among the artifacts, issues have a greater number of interactions than commits and pull requests. Related to autonomy we found that less than half of total project contributions are autonomous. Our findings offer implications to Blockchain stakeholders, like developers to stay aware of OSS practices around Blockchain software. CCS CONCEPTS• Software and its engineering → Software libraries and repositories.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Empirical Study of Blockchain Repositories in GitHub

Das,

Uddin,

Ruhe

2022

Preprint

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“…Each time a new block is approved-chained (consent), all nodes update their private copy. This structure ensures that no manipulation, modification or deletion of data is possible [63].…”

Section: Blockchainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Accounting Information Systems (AIS): Research on e-Procurement and System Integration

Faccia

Petratos

2021

Applied Sciences

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Accounting information systems (AISs), the core module of any enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, are usually designed as centralised systems. Nowadays, the continuous development and applications of blockchain, or more broadly—distributed ledger technology (DLT), can change the architecture, overcome and improve some limitations of centralised systems, most notably security and privacy. An increasing number of authors are suggesting the application of blockchain technologies in management, accounting and ERPs. This paper aims to examine the emerging literature on this field, and an immediate result is that blockchain applications can have significant benefits. The paper’s innovative contribution and considerable objective are to examine if blockchain can be successfully integrated with AIS and ERPs. We find that blockchain can facilitate integration at multiple levels and better serve various purposes as auditing compliance. To demonstrate that, we analyse e-procurement systems and operations using case study research methodology. The findings suggest that DLT, decentralised finance (DeFI), and financial technology (FinTech) applications can facilitate integrating AISs and ERP systems and yield significant benefits for efficiency, productivity and security.

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“…Due to these properties, multiple parties share a single truth via a distributed ledger, which is verifiable at any time. Therefore, blockchain can facilitate trusted collaboration and coordination in distributed software development, software provenance, and software integrity assessment [111]. Another important blockchain property is smart contracts, which are self-executing scripts stored on the blockchain to enable reliable transactions and agreement among different trustless parties [112].…”

Section: Blockchain Applicabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another important blockchain property is smart contracts, which are self-executing scripts stored on the blockchain to enable reliable transactions and agreement among different trustless parties [112]. Thus, 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 [111].…”

Section: Blockchain Applicabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A recent systematic mapping study carried out to explore the software engineering applications enabled by blockchain technology [111] observed a growing trend of blockchainoriented software engineering studies during the last 3 years. For instance, Yilmaz et al [113] proposed the use of blockchain technology to ensure integrity in large-scale agile software development.…”

Section: Blockchain Applicabilitymentioning

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What have we learnt from the challenges of (semi‐) automated requirements traceability? A discussion on blockchain applicability

2021

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Over the last 3 decades, researchers have attempted to shed light into the requirements traceability problem by introducing tracing tools, techniques, and methods with the vision of achieving ubiquitous traceability. Despite the technological advances, requirements traceability remains problematic for researchers and practitioners. This study aims to identify and investigate the main challenges in implementing (semi-)automated requirements traceability, as reported in the recent literature. A systematic literature review was carried out based on the guidelines for systematic literature reviews in software engineering, proposed by Kitchenham. We retrieved 4530 studies by searching five major bibliographic databases and selected 70 primary studies. These studies were analysed and classified according to the challenges they present and/or address. Twenty-one challenges were identified and were classified into five categories. Findings reveal that the most frequent challenges are technological challenges, in particular, low accuracy of traceability recovery methods. Findings also suggest that future research efforts should be devoted to the human facet of tracing, to explore traceability practices in organisational settings, and to develop traceability approaches that support agile and DevOps practices. Finally, it is recommended that researchers leverage blockchain technology as a suitable technical solution to ensure the trustworthiness of traceability information in interorganisational software projects.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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

Cited by 16 publications

References 62 publications

An Empirical Study of Blockchain Repositories in GitHub

An Empirical Study of Blockchain Repositories in GitHub

Blockchain, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Accounting Information Systems (AIS): Research on e-Procurement and System Integration

What have we learnt from the challenges of (semi‐) automated requirements traceability? A discussion on blockchain applicability

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