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Prototyping a Smart Contract Application for Fair Reward Distribution in Software Development Projects

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Blockchain and Applications, 4th International Congress (BLOCKCHAIN 2022)

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The following work describes the development of a project management platform based on the waves blockchain technology. The aim is to use the platform to optimally reward both fairness and the achievement of quality standards in software development. Due to the outsourcing of software projects and the associated processes, situations arise in which different project participants work on the same tasks, while paid differently and in most cases independent of the delivered software quality. This is based on the respective contract conditions an individual software developer has negotiated, without factoring in the actual quality of the code the developer provided. The proposal of this work is a prototypical software application that takes the requirements of a project and measures the corresponding contributions of the developers based on their software quality. Project sponsors can also pay out the enrolled project partners via the platform.

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    Agostino Di Dia, Tim Riebner, Alexander Arntz & Marc Jansen

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  1. Departamento de Informática y Automática, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Javier Prieto

  2. Parque Tecnológico de la Salud (PTS), Granada, Spain

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Di Dia, A., Riebner, T., Arntz, A., Jansen, M. (2023). Prototyping a Smart Contract Application for Fair Reward Distribution in Software Development Projects. In: Prieto, J., Benítez Martínez, F.L., Ferretti, S., Arroyo Guardeño, D., Tomás Nevado-Batalla, P. (eds) Blockchain and Applications, 4th International Congress . BLOCKCHAIN 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 595. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21229-1_13

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