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Defect prediction for Solidity smart contracts using network metrics

Li Xianwei
Pan Weifeng
Wang Jiale
Pan Yun
Yuan Chengxiang
School of Computer Science & Technology, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, China

Abstract

Existing smart contract defect prediction methods are not aware of the impact of the internal structure of contracts on defects prediction. To fill this gap, this paper proposed a novel Solidity smart contract defect prediction method based on a network metric suite. Firstly, it constructed the abstract syntax tree(AST) of the solidity smart contract by using the Solidity-Antlr4 tool. Secondly, it built the contract network based on the AST, with nodes representing functions and attributes, and edges representing the function-call relationship between functions and the operation relationship between functions and attributes. Then, it introduced the theory in the field of complex networks to build a network metric suite for Solidity smart contracts. Finally, it build smart contract defect prediction models based on multiple regression and classification models, and compared the performance of different metric in smart contract defect prediction. Comparative results show that defect prediction models combined with network metric suite outperform corresponding models without the network metric suite.

Foundation Support

浙江省科技厅公益项目(LGF19F020007)
国家自然科学基金资助项目(62272412,61976187)
浙江省自然科学基金资助项目(LY22F020007)

Publish Information

DOI: 10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2023.04.0174
Publish at: Application Research of Computers Printed Article, Vol. 40, 2023 No. 12
Section: Technology of Blockchain
Pages: 3545-3550
Serial Number: 1001-3695(2023)12-004-3545-06

Publish History

[2023-08-09] Accepted Paper
[2023-12-05] Printed Article

Cite This Article

李显伟, 潘伟丰, 王家乐, 等. 基于网络度量元的Solidity智能合约缺陷预测 [J]. 计算机应用研究, 2023, 40 (12): 3545-3550. (Li Xianwei, Pan Weifeng, Wang Jiale, et al. Defect prediction for Solidity smart contracts using network metrics [J]. Application Research of Computers, 2023, 40 (12): 3545-3550. )

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