Prof. Dr. Cesare Pautasso

Blockchain and Smart Contract Engineering

Xabier Larrucea, Cesare Pautasso

IEEE Software, vol. 37, issue 5, pp.23-29

September/October 2020

Abstract

Blockchains help to build trust among a decentralized network of unknown and untrusted peers who need to agree on a common protocol and trust the correctness and compatibility of the corresponding software implementations. The software engineering discipline cannot ignore this trend, as it fundamentally affects the way software is designed, developed, deployed, and delivered. Developers need guidance on how to write secure smart contracts for solving new classes of real-world problems, as opposed to introducing blockchains everywhere, where they may be unnecessary, or provide an inefficient and environmentally unsound solution.

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URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9173634

DOI: 10.1109/MS.2020.3000354

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@article{2020:ieeesw:blockchain,
	author = {Xabier Larrucea and Cesare Pautasso},
	title = {Blockchain and Smart Contract Engineering},
	journal = {IEEE Software},
	volume = {37},
	number = {5},
	year = {2020},
	month = {September/October},
	pages = {23-29},
	abstract = {Blockchains help to build trust among a decentralized network of unknown and untrusted peers who need to agree on a common protocol and trust the correctness and compatibility of the corresponding software implementations. The software engineering discipline cannot ignore this trend, as it fundamentally affects the way software is designed, developed, deployed, and delivered. Developers need guidance on how to write secure smart contracts for solving new classes of real-world problems, as opposed to introducing blockchains everywhere, where they may be unnecessary, or provide an inefficient and environmentally unsound solution.},
	keywords = {software engineering, blockchain},
	doi = {10.1109/MS.2020.3000354},
	url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9173634}
}