Quality Assessment of Digital Artefacts for Decentralised Software Applications
Exchange scientist
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Ilham Qasse, Research assistant
Supervisor at Swiss institution
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ZHAW: Josef Spillner
Supervisor at MENA institution
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University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates: Manar Abu Talib
Presentation of the project
Ilham Qasse spent the entire months of July and August 2019 in SPLab at Zurich University of Applied Sciences.
In July, she focused on the first subtask - quantitative analysis of “DApps“ repositories such as State of the Dapps. In particular, she
- programmed scripts to automate fetching metrics on repositories
- contributed to a research blog post on July 22
- gave an internal talk about the ongoing work to the research group on July 25
- started co-authoring a scientific article on her work together with the supervisor
In August, the second subtask - developer acceptance of reports on quality deficiencies and suggested improvements - also got into the focus. The particular activities have been
- improvement of the script to be more reliable and usable for automated daily scraping
- publication of scripts and data
- seminar talk at the ZHAW/ZHdK building in Zurich with industrial participants on
August 29
- second research blog post related to the talk
- developer survey on quality assessment of digital artefacts
- almost finalisation of the scientific article to be submitted to IEEE DAPPS 2020 ; the article will be concluded during until October 2019 and later extended into a journal article
Presentation at Azure Blockchain Zurich and blog post about this meetup