The creation of blockchain-based software applications requires today considerable technical knowledge, particularly in software design and programming. This is regarded as a major barrier in adopting this technology in business and making it accessible to a wider audience. As a solution, no-code and low-code approaches have been proposed that require only little or no programming knowledge for creating full-fledged software applications. In this paper we review academic approaches from the discipline of model-driven engineering as well as industrial no-code and low-code development platforms for blockchains. We further present a case study for an integrated no-code blockchain environment for demonstrating the state-of-the-art in this area. Based on the gained insights we derive requirements for the future development of no-code and low-code approaches that are dedicated to the field of blockchains.
@article{arxiv.2204.03387,
title = {Blockchain Application Development Using Model-Driven Engineering and Low-Code Platforms: A Survey},
author = {Simon Curty and Felix Härer and Hans-Georg Fill},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.03387},
year = {2022}
}