Maintenance-related concerns for post-deployed Ethereum smart contract development: issues, techniques, and future challenges

• Main Authors: CHEN, Jiachi, XIA, Xin, LO, David, GRUNDY, John, YANG, Xiaohu
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Empirical study;Literature review;Smart contracts;Ethereum;Smart contracts maintenance; Finance and Financial Management; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6413; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7416/viewcontent/maintenance_related_post_deployedEthereum_sv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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 prog...