CHANGE GOVERNANCE USING BLOCKCHAIN

• US 20200133658A1
• Filed: 10/30/2018
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2018
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Emc IP Holding Company LLC (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Emc IP Holding Company LLC (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Agrawal, Siddharth, Somaiah, Chetan Pudiyanda
• Application Number:
  US16/175,200
• Publication Number:
  US 20200133658A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/645 using a third party
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0891 Revocation or update of secret information, e.g. encryption key update or rekeying
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3239 involving non-keyed hash functions, e.g. modification detection codes [MDCs], MD5, SHA or RIPEMD
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/50 using hash chains, e.g. blockchains or hash trees

Abstract

A method is used in maintaining a software project in computing environments. A software project maintenance module processes at least one transaction associated with source code of the software project, where the transaction requires validation by a plurality of contributors in a decentralized network. The software project maintenance module updates the decentralized network by adding the at least one processed transaction as a block in the decentralized network.

Claims

1. A method of maintaining a software project, the method comprising:

processing at least one transaction associated with source code of the software project, wherein the at least one transaction requires validation by a plurality of contributors in a decentralized network; and

updating the decentralized network by adding the at least one processed transaction as a block in the decentralized network.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a user interface allowing each of the plurality of contributors to monitor the processing the at least one transaction.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the decentralized network is a permissioned blockchain network.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the at least one transaction occurs within a predetermined time period.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein each of the plurality of contributors is added as a participant to the permissioned blockchain network, and provided with access to validate the at least one transaction.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein a contributor is added to the permissioned blockchain network for transactions that the contributor is authorized to validate.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein processing the at least one transaction associated with the source code of the software project comprises:

initiating the processing upon detecting a requirement change in the software project.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein processing the at least one transaction associated with the source code of the software project comprises:

invoking the processing by at least one of the plurality of contributors.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one transaction is a requirement change to the software project, and wherein the requirement change is committed when all the contributors have validated the requirement change.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one transaction requires validation when the at least one transaction is not occurring according to a predetermined schedule.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one transaction is a sub project of the software project, and wherein the at least one transaction is linked to at least one previous transaction in the decentralized network.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein each of the contributors may access each of the at least one previous transaction.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the at least one transaction comprises a code requirement, a portion of source code, and at least one test case.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the portion of source code is tokenized and available for re-use within at least one of the software project and another software project.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein updating the decentralized network by adding the processed at least one transaction as a block in the decentralized network comprises:

performing a comparison between the at least one transaction and a previous transaction.

16. A system for use in maintaining a software project in computing environments, the system comprising a processor configured to:

process at least one transaction associated with source code of the software project, wherein the at least one transaction requires validation by a plurality of contributors in a decentralized network; and

update the decentralized network by adding the at least one processed transaction as a block in the decentralized network.

17. The system of claim 16, further configured to:

provide a user interface allowing each of the plurality of contributors to monitor the processing the at least one transaction.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the decentralized network is a permissioned blockchain network.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein each of the at least one transaction comprises a code requirement, a portion of source code, and at least one test case, wherein the portion of source code is tokenized and available for re-use within at least one of the software project and another software project.

20. A computer program product for maintaining a software project in computing environments, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium having computer executable program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a computer processor to;

process at least one transaction associated with source code of the software project, wherein the at least one transaction requires validation by a plurality of contributors in a decentralized network; and

update the decentralized network by adding the at least one processed transaction as a block in the decentralized network.