A graph-based framework for analysing the design of smart contracts

Abstract

Used as a platform for executing smart contracts, Blockchain technology has yielded new programming languages. We propose a graph-based framework for computing software design metrics for the Solidity programming language, and use this framework in a preliminary study on 505 smart contracts mined from GitHub. The results show that most of the smart contracts are rather straightforward from an objected-oriented point of view and that new design metrics specific to smart contracts should be developed.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Vandenbogaerde:FSE19,
  author    = {Bram Vandenbogaerde},
  title     = {A graph-based framework for analysing the design of smart contracts},
  booktitle = {{ESEC/SIGSOFT} {FSE}},
  pages     = {1220--1222},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2019},
}

A graph-based framework for analysing the design of smart contracts

Abstract

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