iSCREAM: a suite for Smart Contract REAdability assessMent

Blockchain is increasingly revolutionizing a variety of sectors, from finance to healthcare. Indeed, the availability of public blockchain platforms, such as Ethereum, has stimulated the development of hundreds of decentralized apps (dApps) that combine smart contract(s) and a front-end user interface. Smart contracts are software, as well, and, as traditional software, they require to be developed and maintained or evolved. Among all the quality properties that must be assessed and guaranteed, readability is a key aspect of source code: a highly readable code facilitates its maintainability, portability, and reusability. This is especially true when considering smart contracts, where code reuse is widely adopted. Indeed, smart contract developers often integrate code portions from other smart contracts in their artifacts. To help developers and researchers more easily estimating and monitoring the code readability of smart contracts, in this demo, we present iSCREAM. iSCREAM automatically inspects Solidity smart contracts and computes a set of metrics that previous research demonstrated being related to code readability. We evaluated iSCREAM on 90 real-world smart contract functions, showing that our tool correctly computes all the aforementioned metrics. Demo webpage: https://github.com/mfredella/iSCREAM