EVMPatch Developer Study

This repository contains the details of the developer study conducted in the course of our paper EVMPatch: Timely and Automated Patching of Ethereum Smart Contracts (arXiv:2010.00341). The data and code in this repository was produced during a research collaboration of NEC Labs Europe and University of Duisburg-Essen.

Citing in Academic Work

For citing these results in academic work please use the following bibtex entry:

@inproceedings{evmpatch,
  title     = "{EVMPatch}: Timely and Automated Patching of Ethereum Smart Contracts",
  author    = "Rodler, Michael and Li, Wenting and Karame, Ghassan and Davi, Lucas",
  booktitle    = "30th {USENIX} Security Symposium ({USENIX} Security '21) [To be published]",
  year         = "2021",
}

Repository Structure

• ./study/ - files provided to the developers during the study
  • The developer study manual was provided to the developers (file: ./developer-study-manual.pdf)
  • A spreadsheet for submitting the answers (file: ./study_answers.ods)
  • The files for the tasks described in the manual (files: ./task_{1,2,3}/)
• ./results/ - the aggregated results of the study
  • results-analysis.ods - spreadsheet containing the results