Rocha, HenriqueBusinge, John2023-02-052023-02-052022Rocha, 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.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9825831/https://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/7542In 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%).enBlockchain-oriented softwareBOSVariant forksHard forksSoftware familyOther