Smart Contract Security: A Practitioners' Perspective

Smart contracts have been plagued by security incidents, which resulted in substantial financial losses. Given numerous research efforts in addressing the security issues of smart contracts, we wondered how software practitioners build security into smart contracts in practice. We performed a mixtur...

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Vydáno v:Proceedings / International Conference on Software Engineering s. 1410 - 1422
Hlavní autoři: Wan, Zhiyuan, Xia, Xin, Lo, David, Chen, Jiachi, Luo, Xiapu, Yang, Xiaohu
Médium: Konferenční příspěvek
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: IEEE 01.05.2021
Témata:
Blockchain
Continents
Empirical study
Practitioner
Security
Smart contract
Smart contracts
Software
Software engineering
ISBN:1665402962, 9781665402965
ISSN:1558-1225
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Shrnutí:Smart contracts have been plagued by security incidents, which resulted in substantial financial losses. Given numerous research efforts in addressing the security issues of smart contracts, we wondered how software practitioners build security into smart contracts in practice. We performed a mixture of qualitative and quantitative studies with 13 interviewees and 156 survey respondents from 35 countries across six continents to understand practitioners' perceptions and practices on smart contract security. Our study uncovers practitioners' motivations and deterrents of smart contract security, as well as how security efforts and strategies fit into the development lifecycle. We also find that blockchain platforms have a statistically significant impact on practitioners' security perceptions and practices of smart contract development. Based on our findings, we highlight future research directions and provide recommendations for practitioners.
ISBN:1665402962
9781665402965
ISSN:1558-1225
DOI:10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00127