Engineering Blockchain Based Software Systems: Foundations, Survey, and Future Directions
Abstract
Many scientific and practical areas have shown increasing interest in reaping the benefits of blockchain technology to empower software systems. However, the unique characteristics and requirements associated with Blockchain Based Software (BBS) systems raise new challenges across the development lifecycle that entail an extensive improvement of conventional software engineering. This article presents a systematic literature review of the state-of-the-art in BBS engineering research from a software engineering perspective. We characterize BBS engineering from the theoretical foundations, processes, models, and roles and discuss a rich repertoire of key development activities, principles, challenges, and techniques. The focus and depth of this survey not only gives software engineering practitioners and researchers a consolidated body of knowledge about current BBS development but also underpins a starting point for further research in this field.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2105.01881,
title = {Engineering Blockchain Based Software Systems: Foundations, Survey, and Future Directions},
author = {Mahdi Fahmideh and John Grundy and Aakash Ahmed and Jun Shen and Jun Yan and Davoud Mougouei and Peng Wang and Aditya Ghose and Anuradha Gunawardana and Uwe Aickelin and Babak Abedin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.01881},
year = {2023}
}