2nd International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Engineering for Blockchain
The 2nd Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Engineering for Blockchain tackles once more the challenges of gathering together researchers interested in emerging topics and trends in software engineering. The Workshop’s goal is to gather together practitioners, researchers and people from industry to discuss the progresses on the research and on the practical usage of blockchain technologies and smart contracts, focusing on the application and definition of software engineering principles and practices specific for such software technology, and for the technologies relying on it.

Motivations for this workshop are the ever-increasing interest both in the research community and in the industry on Blockchain and smart contracts principles and applications, being the management of cryptocurrencies the most popular topic. Countries like USA and China are heading the run to exploit all blockchain potential. These novelties call for specific tools, paradigms, principles, approaches and research to deal with it and for a specific Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering (BO SE ) [1].

This workshop aims at bringing the interest of researchers, practitioners, and people from industry to the current issues and new directions and challenges for blockchain-oriented software engineering and at investigating the need for novel specialized software engineering practices for the Blockchain software sector.

The topics of interest in the discussion include:

Blockchain-Oriented Software Engineering.
Blockchain software analysis and re-engineering
Formal specification of Blockchain behavior
Agile and Lean processes for Blockchain software development
Tools for Blockchain software distributed development and community management
Smart Contracts re-engineering
Security and reliability in Blockchain and Smart Contracts
Smart Contract Testing (SCT)
Blockchain Transaction Testing (BTT) to ensure status integrity
Blockchain Software architecture, design notation and metamodels
Applications in Economy and Finance
Internet of Things
Notarization Supply chain management Web 3.0 e-commerce, e-health, e-democracy social networks.


[1] Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering, S. Porru, A. Pinna, M Marchesi, R. Tonelli, ICSE 2017