DLT smart contract platforms for software lifecycle management

Abstract

After its introduction the smart contract platforms got practical use when they become key part of the Ethereum public blockchain and defined the concept of distributed applications (dApps). Smart contract platforms, based on distributed ledger technologies (DLT), are used in various industries such as banking, government and law, healthcare, insurance, and transportation. One area of a DLT and smart contracts could also be used is the area of the software lifecycle management (SLM). Complex SLM procedures involve many parties such as customer, software provider, technical and business consultants, auditors, hardware providers, third party software vendors, and others. In this paper we investigate the applicability of DLT-based smart contract platforms to support multi-party SLM processes for complex customer systems, components of which are running on premise, in the cloud and on edge devices.