Blockchain-based Marketplace for Software Testing

Department of Computing and Software at Mc-Master University and Highmark Global are collaborating on a research project to develop an efficient blockchain-based marketplace for software testing. In this paper, we propose a consensus protocol for the blockchain platform in medical related technologies. The proposed consensus protocol incorporates a software testing algorithm that takes into account the capability and credibility of software testers and temporally adjusts these qualities based on the performance of testing jobs completed by the testers. In addition, the protocol maintains a quantifiable measure of testers' capabilities based on the past jobs they have completed. We expect to implement this protocol and deploy on a blockchain platform to automate the software testing validation process and resolve discrepancies that arise between testing results from different testers.