Soares, P;
Araújo, AA;
Destefanis, G;
Neykova, R;
Saraiva, R;
Souza, J;
(2025)
Blockchain Developer Experience: A Multivocal Literature Review.
In:
Proceedings 2025 IEEE ACM 18th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering Chase 2025.
(pp. pp. 27-38).
IEEE: Ottawa, Canada.
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Abstract
The rise of smart contracts has expanded blockchain’s capabilities, enabling the development of innovative decentralized applications (dApps). However, this advancement brings its own challenges, including the management of distributed architectures and immutable data. Addressing these complexities requires a specialized approach to software engineering, with blockchain-oriented practices emerging to support development in this domain. Developer Experience (DEx) is central to this effort, focusing on the usability, productivity, and overall satisfaction of tools and frameworks from the engineers’ perspective. Despite its importance, research on Blockchain Developer Experience (BcDEx) remains limited, with no systematic mapping of academic and industry efforts. To bridge this gap, we conducted a Multivocal Literature Review analyzing 62 to understand the distribution of BcDEx sources, practical implementations, and their impact. Our findings revealed that academic focus on BcDEx is limited compared to the coverage in gray literature, which primarily includes blogs (41.8%) and corporate sources (21.8%). Particularly, development efficiency, multi-network support, and usability are the most addressed aspects in tools and frameworks. In addition, we found that BcDEx is being shaped through five key perspectives: complexity abstraction, adoption facilitation, productivity enhancement, developer education, and BcDEx evaluation.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Blockchain Developer Experience: A Multivocal Literature Review |
| Event: | 2025 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE) |
| Dates: | 27 Apr 2025 - 28 Apr 2025 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/CHASE66643.2025.00012 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1109/CHASE66643.2025.00012 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Blockchain, smart contracts, dapps, developer experience, multivocal literature review |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10213514 |
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