TY - GEN
T1 - Towards Efficient and Secure Global Software Development using Blockchain
AU - Akbar, Muhammad Azeem
AU - Al-Sanad, Ahmad
AU - Alsanad, Abeer Abdul Aziz
AU - Ghmaei, Abdu
AU - Shafiq, Muhammad
AU - Kamal, Tahir
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 ACM.
PY - 2020/4/15
Y1 - 2020/4/15
N2 - The economic and strategic gain attracts the software industry to adopt the global software development (GSD) phenomenon. Besides the significant advantages, the GSD firms also face certain critical challenges mainly related to security and management perspective. Blockchain is the new revolutionary technology that offers over the globe secure storage via distributed databases. The objective of this study is to investigate how the adoption of blockchain is beneficial for the GSD project. We have conducted interviews with academic researchers and case studies with industry practitioners to identify the impact of blockchain on GSD projects. We have identified ten key critical areas of GSD the effectively addressed by using the blockchain technology in GSD context. A comparative analysis is conducted with the finding of academic researcher and industry practitioners, and the results ((W=0.86, p=0.005) shows that there is a strong agreement between the understanding of academic researchers and industry practitioners. Besides, we have developed a hypothetical model based on the findings of both studies that shows the positive relationship of blockchain implementation in the GSD domain. We believe that the findings of this study will encourage the practitioners and researchers to develop the new plan and strategies for the adoption of blockchain in GSD.
AB - The economic and strategic gain attracts the software industry to adopt the global software development (GSD) phenomenon. Besides the significant advantages, the GSD firms also face certain critical challenges mainly related to security and management perspective. Blockchain is the new revolutionary technology that offers over the globe secure storage via distributed databases. The objective of this study is to investigate how the adoption of blockchain is beneficial for the GSD project. We have conducted interviews with academic researchers and case studies with industry practitioners to identify the impact of blockchain on GSD projects. We have identified ten key critical areas of GSD the effectively addressed by using the blockchain technology in GSD context. A comparative analysis is conducted with the finding of academic researcher and industry practitioners, and the results ((W=0.86, p=0.005) shows that there is a strong agreement between the understanding of academic researchers and industry practitioners. Besides, we have developed a hypothetical model based on the findings of both studies that shows the positive relationship of blockchain implementation in the GSD domain. We believe that the findings of this study will encourage the practitioners and researchers to develop the new plan and strategies for the adoption of blockchain in GSD.
KW - Blockchain
KW - Case studies
KW - Global software development
KW - influencing factors
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85090863059&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3383219.3383291
DO - 10.1145/3383219.3383291
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85090863059
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 493
EP - 498
BT - Proceedings of EASE 2020 - Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 24th Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering Conference, EASE 2020
Y2 - 15 April 2020 through 17 April 2020
ER -