Analysis of the impact of developers' expertise on the maintainability of contributions to HYPERLEDGER FABRIC

• Moisés Cunha Pimentel UESPI
• Alcemir Rodrigues Santos UESPI

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/ercemapi.2024.243642

Abstract

Lehman’s Software evolution Laws highlight the importance of maintain the ability to make changes in a software due the source-code quality decline over the years. However, only recently the software engineering researchers have turned their attention into the blockchain-orineted software. To the best of our knowledge, there is no evidence of the impact of the developers expertise in the level of maintainability. In this paper, we performed an empirical evaluation of it in the history of the HYPERLEDGER FABRIC evolution. Results show signs that the overload of the core developers may be affecting the quality of their contributions.

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