Preliminary steps towards modeling blockchain oriented software

Even though blockchain is mostly popular for its cryptocurrency, smart contracts have become a very prominent blockchain application. Smart contracts are like classes that can be called by client applications outside the blockchain. Therefore it is possible to develop blockchain-oriented software (B...

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Published in:2018 IEEE ACM 1st International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Engineering for Blockchain (WETSEB) pp. 52 - 57
Main Authors: Rocha, Henrique, Ducasse, Stéphane
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 27.05.2018
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
Applied computing > Enterprise computing > Business process management > Business process modeling
Blockchain
BPMN
Contracts
Data models
ER Model
Erbium
Modeling
Object oriented modeling
Smart Contracts
Software
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Designing software
Software and its engineering > Software notations and tools > System description languages > Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Software system structures > Software system models > Entity relationship modeling
UML
Unified modeling language
BPMN
ER model
modeling
UML
blockchain
smart contracts
ISBN:9781450357265, 1450357261
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Summary:Even though blockchain is mostly popular for its cryptocurrency, smart contracts have become a very prominent blockchain application. Smart contracts are like classes that can be called by client applications outside the blockchain. Therefore it is possible to develop blockchain-oriented software (BOS) that implements part of the business logic in the blockchain by using smart contracts. Currently, there is no design standard to model BOS. Since modeling is an important part of designing a software, developers may struggle to plan their BOS. In this paper, we show three complementary modeling approaches based on well-known software engineering models and apply them to a BOS example. Our goal is to start the discussion on specialized blockchain modeling notations.
ISBN:9781450357265
1450357261
DOI:10.1145/3194113.3194123