Open AccessProceedings Article10.1109/ICSE-NIER.2019.00022

Blockchain-based software engineering

- 27 May 2019

- pp 53-56

TL;DR: This paper defines how Blockchain technology could solve two core SE problems: Continuous Integration Services such as Travis CI and Package Managers such as apt-get and democratize and professionalize Software Engineering infrastructure that currently relies on free work done by few volunteers.

Abstract: Blockchain technology has found a great number of applications, from banking to the Internet of Things (IoT). However, it has not yet been envisioned whether and which problems in Software Engineering (SE) Blockchain technology could solve. In this paper, we coin this field "Blockchain-based Software Engineering" and exemplify how Blockchain technology could solve two core SE problems: Continuous Integration (CI) Services such as Travis CI and Package Managers such as apt-get. We believe that Blockchain technology could help (1) democratize and professionalize Software Engineering infrastructure that currently relies on free work done by few volunteers, (2) improve the quality of artifacts and services, and (3) increase trust in ubiquitously used systems like GitHub or Travis CI.

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In this paper, the authors coin this field “ Blockchain-based Software Engineering ” and exemplify how Blockchain technology can be applied to two core Software Engineering problems: Continuous Integration Services such as Travis CI and Package Managers such as apt-get.. The authors believe that Blockchain technology could help ( 1 ) democratize and professionalize Software Engineering infrastructure that currently relies on free work done by few volunteers, ( 2 ) improve the quality of released artifacts, and ( 3 ) increase trust in ubiquitously used infrastructure such as GitHub Travis CI.

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While the authors outlined ideas for how to tackle SE challenges using Blockchain technology, many exciting research opportunities and their implementation remain for future work, e. g., a truly distributed version of Git on the Blockchain or, abstracting from BCI, a decentralized computing platform competing with the likes of AWS.

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