Investigation on Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Open-Source Blockchain Projects

Technical debt refers to decisions made during the design and development of software that postpone resolution technical problems or enhancement software’s features a later date. If not properly managed, can put long-term quality maintainability at risk. Self-admitted is defined as addition specific comments source code result conscious deliberate accumulate debt. In this paper, we will look presence self-admitted in open-source blockchain projects, which are characterized by use relatively novel technology need generate trust. The was analyzed using NLP techniques for classification extracted from ten projects chosen based on capitalization popularity. analysis compared with results previous non-blockchain project analyses. findings show outnumbers requirement projects. discovered some had low percentage but high files addition, average more prevalent equally distributed than reference Java projects.If detected could represent threat needed trust between system users. Blockchain teams benefit detection targeted management.