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Blockchain-Oriented Software Development Issues: A Literature Review

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Software Engineering Application in Informatics (CoMeSySo 2021)

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Blockchain-oriented software is a trend and a hot topic for discussion. The fitness of the common software engineering practices, tools, techniques, and methods for this new type of software has been discussed by many investigators. Furthermore, a new branch of software engineering known as blockchain-oriented software engineering has been announced as a new research field. However, the current issues of Blockchain-oriented software development have not been well defined yet. This study offers a systematic review procedure for software engineering, the stages pursued, the explanation of every one of them, along with its execution employed to the subject of the current issues in blockchain-oriented software development. The results of this study confirm that there 15 issues related to the exceptional properties of blockchain-oriented software affecting its development process.

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Acknowledgment

This research was fully supported by Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, under the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) with Ref. No. FRGS/1/2018/ICT04/UTP/02/4.

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  1. Department of Computer & Information Sciences, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia

    Ammar AL-Ashmori, Shuib Basri, P. D. D. Dominic, Amgad Muneer & Qasem Al-Tashi

  2. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia

    Yasser Al-Ashmori

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AL-Ashmori, A., Basri, S., Dominic, P.D.D., Muneer, A., Al-Tashi, Q., Al-Ashmori, Y. (2021). Blockchain-Oriented Software Development Issues: A Literature Review. In: Silhavy, R., Silhavy, P., Prokopova, Z. (eds) Software Engineering Application in Informatics. CoMeSySo 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 232. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90318-3_6

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