Blockchain Developer Experience: A Multivocal Literature Review

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11431v1
• Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 12:09:27 GMT
• Title: Blockchain Developer Experience: A Multivocal Literature Review
• Authors: P. Soares, A. A. Araujo, G. Destefanis, R. Neykova, R. Saraiva, J. Souza,
• Abstract summary: Development efficiency, multi-network support, and usability are the most addressed aspects in tools and frameworks.<n>BcDEx is being shaped through five key perspectives: abstraction, adoption facilitation, productivity enhancement, developer education, and BcDEx evaluation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• 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.

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