Blockchain-Empowered Decentralized Framework for Secure and Efficient Software Crowdsourcing

Abstract

To achieve software crowdsourcing, it is significant to develop a suitable framework for software development and quality control to motivate workers to participate and well-perform in crowdsourcing. Although the existing works have achieved some positive results, they do not achieve secure and efficient software crowdsourcing due to the “trust” and “efficiency” issues. For example, the existing centralized software crowdsourcing suffers from lack of trust, low reliability, and high costs. We first exploit blockchain technologies for software crowdsourcing and propose a blockchain-empowered decentralized framework for software development and quality control to achieve secure and efficient software crowdsourcing. Then we describe and analyze the blockchain-empowered decentralized framework for software crowdsourcing in detail. Ultimately, we analyze the security and efficiency performance of the proposed blockchain-empowered decentralized crowdsourcing framework.