Blockchain Developments and Innovations
This addresses the need for better software engineering practices in blockchain applications, but it is incremental as it focuses on evaluating existing methods rather than introducing new ones.
The paper tackles the challenge of adapting software engineering processes for blockchain development by evaluating existing methods through a criteria-based framework, providing results that can be used to compare and improve these processes.
Blockchain has received expanding interest from various domains. Institutions, enterprises, governments, and agencies are interested in Blockchain potential to augment their software systems. The unique requirements and characteristics of Blockchain platforms raise new challenges involving extensive enhancement to conventional software development processes to meet the needs of these domains. Software engineering approaches supporting Blockchain-oriented developments have been slow to materialize, despite proposals in the literature, and they have yet to be objectively analyzed. A critical appraisal of these innovations is crucial to identify their respective strengths and weaknesses. We present an analytical evaluation of several prominent Blockchain-oriented methods through a comprehensive, criteria-based evaluation framework. The results can be used for comparing, adapting, and developing a new generation of Blockchain-oriented software development processes and innovations.