Blockchain-Oriented Software Variant Forks: A Preliminary Study
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Date
2022
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IEEE
Abstract
In collaborative social development platforms such
as GitHub, forking a repository is a common activity. A variant
fork wants to split the development from the original repository
and grow towards a different direction. In this preliminary
exploratory research, we analyze the possible reasons for creating
a variant fork in blockchain-oriented software. By collecting
repositories in GitHub, we created a dataset with repositories
and their variants, from which we manually analyzed 86 variants.
Based on the variants we studied, the main reason to create a
variant in blockchain-oriented software is to support a different
blockchain platform (65%).
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Blockchain-oriented software, BOS, Variant forks, Hard forks, Software family
Citation
Rocha, H., & Businge, J. (2022, March). Blockchain-Oriented Software Variant Forks: A Preliminary Study. In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) (pp. 1191-1196). IEEE.