Smart Contract Security: A Practitioners' Perspective: The Artifact of a Paper Accepted in the 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2021)

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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Published in:2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE-Companion) pp. 227 - 228
Main Authors: Wan, Zhiyuan, Xia, Xin, Lo, David, Chen, Jiachi, Luo, Xiapu, Yang, Xiaohu
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.05.2021
Subjects:
Blockchain
Empirical study
Fault tolerance
Fault tolerant systems
Industries
Practitioner
Security
Smart contract
Smart contracts
Software engineering
ISBN:1665412194, 9781665412193
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Abstract 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 astatistically 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.
AbstractList 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 astatistically 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.
Author Lo, David
Wan, Zhiyuan
Chen, Jiachi
Yang, Xiaohu
Luo, Xiapu
Xia, Xin
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SubjectTerms Blockchain
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Fault tolerance
Fault tolerant systems
Industries
Practitioner
Security
Smart contract
Smart contracts
Software engineering
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