(WIP) Blockhub: Blockchain-Based Software Development System for Untrusted Environments

Ulybyshev, Denis; Villarreal-Vasquez, Miguel; Bhargava, Bharat; Mani, Ganapathy; Seaberg, Steve; Conoval, Paul; Pike, Robert W.; Kobes, Jason

doi:10.1109/cloud.2018.00081

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“…Bubbles' sizes represent the frequency of studies that fall within these intersections (The total number of studies in this map overcomes the number of selected studies, because one study, in specific, [30] refers to more than one topic). Inspired by SWEBOK, we classified the selected studies into 8 categories, namely, (i) software requirements [43], (ii) software engineering process [30,[44][45][46], (iii) software testing [47,48], (iv) software quality [49][50][51], (v) software maintenance [29], (vi) software configuration management [30,41,52], (vii) software engineering management [37,42,[53][54][55][56], and (viii) professional practice [57][58][59]. We briefly describe the SE applications below.…”

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Software Engineering Applications Enabled by Blockchain Technology: A Systematic Mapping Study

2021

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The novel, yet disruptive blockchain technology has witnessed growing attention, due to its intrinsic potential. Besides the conventional domains that benefit from such potential, such as finance, supply chain and healthcare, blockchain use cases in software engineering have emerged recently. In this study, we aim to contribute to the body of knowledge of blockchain-oriented software engineering by providing an adequate overview of the software engineering applications enabled by blockchain technology. To do so, we carried out a systematic mapping study and identified 22 primary studies. Then, we extracted data within the research type, research topic and contribution type facets. Findings suggest an increasing trend of studies since 2018. Additionally, findings reveal the potential of using blockchain technologies as an alternative to centralized systems, such as GitHub, Travis CI, and cloud-based package managers, and also to establish trust between parties in collaborative software development. We also found out that smart contracts can enable the automation of a variety of software engineering activities that usually require human reasoning, such as the acceptance phase, payments to software engineers, and compliance adherence. In spite of the fact that the field is not yet mature, we believe that this systematic mapping study provides a holistic overview that may benefit researchers interested in bringing blockchain to the software industry, and practitioners willing to understand how blockchain can transform the software development industry.

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Software Engineering Applications Enabled by Blockchain Technology: A Systematic Mapping Study

2021

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“…Ulybyshev et al [39] explained that the blockchain is used to provide the process of audibility, traceability in software development, and a role-based access control mechanism for the accesses of unauthorized data. Hossain et al [40] proposed a forensic investigation framework based on the blockchain, which focuses on detecting various criminal incidents in the IoT and also on collecting the details of communications from different entities present in it.…”

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CustodyBlock: A Distributed Chain of Custody Evidence Framework

Alruwaili

2021

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With the increasing number of cybercrimes, the digital forensics team has no choice but to implement more robust and resilient evidence-handling mechanisms. The capturing of digital evidence, which is a tangible and probative piece of information that can be presented in court and used in trial, is very challenging due to its volatility and improper handling procedures. When computer systems get compromised, digital forensics comes into play to analyze, discover, extract, and preserve all relevant evidence. Therefore, it is imperative to maintain efficient evidence management to guarantee the credibility and admissibility of digital evidence in a court of law. A critical component of this process is to utilize an adequate chain of custody (CoC) approach to preserve the evidence in its original state from compromise and/or contamination. In this paper, a practical and secure CustodyBlock (CB) model using private blockchain protocol and smart contracts to support the control, transfer, analysis, and preservation monitoring is proposed. The smart contracts in CB are utilized to enhance the model automation process for better and more secure evidence preservation and handling. A further research direction in terms of implementing blockchain-based evidence management ecosystems, and the implications on other different areas, are discussed.

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“…The blockchain technologies can ensure integrity, trust, immutability and authenticity in untrusted software development. In [35], blockchain is used to provide the auditability, traceability in software development and a role-based access control mechanism for unauthorized data accesses is developed.…”

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Blockchain-Based Digital Forensics Investigation Framework in the Internet of Things and Social Systems

Qin

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2019

IEEE Trans. Comput. Soc. Syst.

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The decentralised nature of blockchain technologies can well match the needs of integrity and provenances of evidences collecting in digital forensics across jurisdictional borders. In this work, a novel blockchain based digital forensics investigation framework in the Internet of Things (IoT) and social systems environment is proposed, which can provide proof of existence and privacy preservation for evidence items examination. To implement such features, we present a block enabled forensics framework for IoT, namely IoT forensic chain (IoTFC), which can offer forensic investigation with good authenticity, immutability, traceability, resilience, and distributed trust between evidential entitles as well as examiners. The IoTFC can deliver a gurantee of traceability and track provenance of evidence items. Details of evidence identification, preservation, analysis, and presentation will be recorded in chains of block. The IoTFC can increase trust of both evidence items and examiners by providing transparency of the audit train. The use case demonstrated the effectiveness of proposed method.

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(WIP) Blockhub: Blockchain-Based Software Development System for Untrusted Environments

Cited by 18 publications

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Software Engineering Applications Enabled by Blockchain Technology: A Systematic Mapping Study

Software Engineering Applications Enabled by Blockchain Technology: A Systematic Mapping Study

CustodyBlock: A Distributed Chain of Custody Evidence Framework

Blockchain-Based Digital Forensics Investigation Framework in the Internet of Things and Social Systems

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