Maintenance-Related Concerns for Post-deployed Ethereum Smart Contract Development: Issues, Techniques, and Future Challenges
Thu 12 May 2022 04:00 - 04:05 at ICSE room 4-even hours - Evolution and Maintenance 2 Chair(s): Sigrid Eldh
Software development is a very broad activity that captures the entire life cycle of a software, which includes designing, programming, maintenance and so on. In this study, we focus on the maintenance-related concerns of the post-deployment of smart contracts. Smart contracts are self-executed programs that run on a blockchain. They cannot be modified once deployed and hence they bring unique maintenance challenges compared to conventional software. According to the definition of ISO/IEC 14764, there are four kinds of software maintenance, i.e., corrective, adaptive, perfective, and preventive maintenance. This study aims to answer (i) What kinds of issues will smart contract developers encounter for corrective, adaptive, perfective, and preventive maintenance after they are deployed to the Ethereum? (ii) What are the current maintenance-related methods used for smart contracts? To obtain the answers to these research questions, we first conducted a systematic literature review to analyze 131 smart contract related research papers published from 2014 to 2020. Since the Ethereum ecosystem is fast-growing, some results from previous publications might be out-of-date and there may be a gap between academia and industry. To address this, we performed an online survey of smart contract developers on Github to validate our findings and received 165 useful responses. Based on the survey feedback and literature review, we present the first empirical study on smart contract maintenance-related concerns. Our study can help smart contract developers better maintain their smart contract-based projects, and we highlight some key future research directions to improve the Ethereum ecosystem.
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11:00 - 12:00 | Evolution and Maintenance 4NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results / Journal-First Papers / Technical Track at ICSE room 1-odd hours Chair(s): Sarah Nadi University of Alberta | ||
11:00 5mTalk | Maintenance-Related Concerns for Post-deployed Ethereum Smart Contract Development: Issues, Techniques, and Future Challenges Journal-First Papers Jiachi Chen Sun Yat-Sen University, Xin Xia Huawei Software Engineering Application Technology Lab, David Lo Singapore Management University, John Grundy Monash University, Xiaohu Yang Zhejiang University Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
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11:20 5mTalk | Guidelines for Assessing the Accuracy of Log Message Template Identification Techniques Technical Track Zanis Ali Khan University of Luxembourg, Donghwan Shin University of Luxembourg, Domenico Bianculli University of Luxembourg, Lionel Briand University of Luxembourg; University of Ottawa Pre-print Media Attached | ||
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Thu 12 MayDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
04:00 - 05:00 | Evolution and Maintenance 2Technical Track / Journal-First Papers at ICSE room 4-even hours Chair(s): Sigrid Eldh Ericsson AB, Mälardalen University, Carleton Unviersity | ||
04:00 5mTalk | Maintenance-Related Concerns for Post-deployed Ethereum Smart Contract Development: Issues, Techniques, and Future Challenges Journal-First Papers Jiachi Chen Sun Yat-Sen University, Xin Xia Huawei Software Engineering Application Technology Lab, David Lo Singapore Management University, John Grundy Monash University, Xiaohu Yang Zhejiang University Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
04:05 5mTalk | Context-aware Retrieval-based Deep Commit Message Generation Journal-First Papers Haoye Wang Zhejiang University, Xin Xia Huawei Software Engineering Application Technology Lab, David Lo Singapore Management University, Qiang He Swinburne University of Technology, Xinyu Wang Zhejiang University, John Grundy Monash University Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
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04:15 5mTalk | Guidelines for Assessing the Accuracy of Log Message Template Identification Techniques Technical Track Zanis Ali Khan University of Luxembourg, Donghwan Shin University of Luxembourg, Domenico Bianculli University of Luxembourg, Lionel Briand University of Luxembourg; University of Ottawa Pre-print Media Attached | ||
04:20 5mTalk | Automated Patching for Unreproducible Builds Technical Track Zhilei Ren Dalian University of Technology, Shiwei Sun Dalian University of Technology, Jifeng Xuan Wuhan University, Xiaochen Li University of Luxembourg, Zhide Zhou Dalian University of Technology, He Jiang School of Software, Dalian University of Technology Pre-print Media Attached | ||
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