@inproceedings{ccc4a5ee701d4c8d8cfb4392bb6f3eab,
title = "Smart Contract SecurityL A Practitioners' Perspective: The Artifact of a Paper Accepted in the 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2021)",
abstract = "Smart contracts have been plagued by security incidents, which resulted in substantial financial losses. Given numerous research efforts in addressing the security issues of smart contracts, we wondered how software practitioners build security into smart contracts in practice. We performed a mixture of qualitative and quantitative studies with 13 interviewees and 156 survey respondents from 35 countries across six continents to understand practitioners' perceptions and practices on smart contract security. Our study uncovers practitioners' motivations and deterrents of smart contract security, as well as how security efforts and strategies fit into the development lifecycle. We also find that blockchain platforms have astatistically significant impact on practitioners' security perceptions and practices of smart contract development. Based on our findings, we highlight future research directions and provide recommendations for practitioners.",
keywords = "Empirical study, Practitioner, Security, Smart contract",
author = "Zhiyuan Wan and Xin Xia and David Lo and Jiachi Chen and Xiapu Luo and Xiaohu Yang",
note = "Funding Information: Ac k n o w l e d g e m e n t s This research was partially supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2020YFB1005400), Australian Research Council{\textquoteright}s Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Funding Scheme (DE200100021), ARC Discovery Grant (DP200100020), National Science Foundation of China (No. U20A20173), Hong Kong RGC Project (No. 152193/19E), and the National Research Foundation, Singapore under its Industry Alignment Fund - Prepositioning (IAF-PP) Funding Initiative. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not reflect the views of National Research Foundation, Singapore. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 IEEE.; 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion, ICSE-Companion 2021 ; Conference date: 25-05-2021 Through 28-05-2021",
year = "2021",
month = may,
doi = "10.1109/ICSE-Companion52605.2021.00104",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "227--228",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering",
address = "United States",
}