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Trusted open data can be used for auditing, accountability, business development, or as an anti-corruption mechanism. Metadata information can address provenance concerns, and trust issues can somehow be mitigated by digital signatures. Those approaches can trace the data origin, but usually lack information about the transformation process. Creating trust in an open data service through technology can reduce the need for third-party certifications, and creating a distributed consensus mechanism capable of validating all the transformations can guarantee that the datasets are reliable and easy to use. This work aims to leverage blockchain technologies to track open data transformations, allowing consumers to verify the data using a distributed ledger, and providing a mechanism capable of publishing trusted transformed data without relying on third-party certifications. To validate the proposed approach, use cases for data transformation will be used. The consensus protocol must be capable of validating the transformations according to a predefined algorithm, the provider must be capable of publishing verifiable transformed data, and the consumer should be able to check if a dataset originated by a transformation is legit. © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

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Software analytics supports data-driven decision making, which allows software practitioners to leverage valuable insights from software data to improve their processes and many quality aspects of the software. In this paper, we present an artifact designed from a set of patterns to support agile teams to plan and manage software analysis activities, named Software Analytics Canvas. Further, we report the study undertaken to evaluate the ease of use and the utility of our canvas from the practitioners' viewpoint, and a participatory design session carried out to collect information about possible artifact improvements. In general, subjects found the artifact useful, but some of them reported difficulties in learning and understanding how to use it. In the participatory design, they pointed out improvement points and a new layout for the canvas components. The results of both studies helped us refine the proposed artifact, improving both the terms used in each element and the layout of the blocks to make more sense for its users.

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The explosion of blockchain projects in last couple of years shows the general interest in the blockchain technology. Looking towards the current state of the art regarding this technology it becomes clear that the main driver of innovation is the private sector. We believe that understanding main applications of the technology, academic contributions, and private solutions can reveal where the interest in the technology exists and where it can be missing. In particular, this work can help identify open source projects that can provide a framework with next-generation features as; lightning network, directed acyclic graph, mobile compatibility, or compute protocols. New applications of the blockchain technology are still being discovered regularly and in this study several blockchain development frameworks were found. However, in the academic world there are few references to operational, testing, and deployment framework related with the technology. With the expected growth of the technology, integration with preexisting solutions, legacy systems replacement, or new implementations, the need for testing, deploying, exploration, and maintenance is expected to intensify for the technology.

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