Collaborative Aspects in the Smart Contracts Development for Ethereum Platform: A Preliminary Exploratory-Descriptive Study

• Alan Rodrigues UFC
• Allysson Allex Araújo UFC
• Matheus Paixão UECE
• Pamella Soares UECE

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/washes.2022.222802

Abstract

Smart Contracts (SCs) projects are joining the open source development. However, the development of SCs have to deal with new constraints which motivate questions about the dynamics of collaboration between developers and the community. Based on an exploratory-descriptive scope, this paper aims to discuss preliminary results on collaborative elements regarding the open source development of SCs, in particular: i) the relationship between commits and collaborators, and ii) the report and resolution of issues.

Keywords: Collaborative Aspects, Smart Contracts, Mining Software Repositories, Ethereum

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