# A Blockchain-Enabled Framework for Improving the Software Audit Process
## 4 Results and Discussion
Most of the questions were ranked more than 8, which shows that SSFTA is easy to use for a software audit. Table 4 includes the four questions that were asked of the respondents to evaluate the security of SSFTA. The respondents' evaluation of the questions related to SSFTA security is depicted in the graph of Figure 5.  
According to Figure 5, the total percentage of agreement was more than the threshold value for each question related to the security of the software audit process while using SSFTA. This shows that SSFTA is helpful in preventing software from audit fraud. Table 5 lists three questions that were used to evaluate the structure of SSFTA. These questions aimed to evaluate whether the structure of SSFTA is self-explanatory and applicable. Figure 4: The evaluation of SSFTA for usability and ease of use. \begin{table}
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**Ease of Learning** \\ \hline It is easy to understand the end-to-end process of software audit from _SSFTA_ \\ \hline It is easy to understand the role of BCT/DTL and smart contracts in managing software audit \\ \hline It is easy to use SSFTA to assess the role of 5G and the cloud for software audit \\ \hline Each individual practice mentioned in SSFTA is easy to understand and unambiguous \\ \hline Some training is required before using SSFTA \\ \hline SSFTA is general and can be applied to most software companies for auditing \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 3: The questions to evaluate SSFTA ease of learning. Figure 6 depicts the respondents' evaluation regarding the structure of SSFTA. The results of Figure 6 show that SSFTA is self-explanatory, applicable in real software settings, and uses the latest tools and technologies for software auditing. \begin{table}
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**Secure Auditing** \\ \hline Using SSFTA will make the audit process transparent and secure \\ \hline Using SSFTA would identify strong and weak areas in the company regarding secure software \\ auditing \\ \hline The use of BCT/DTL and smart contract in SSFTA helps to prevent audit fraud \\ \hline Using SSFTA would improve our secure software audit processes \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 4: The questions to evaluate SSFTA secure auditing characteristics. Figure 5: SSFTA evaluation for the security of software audit. Figure 6: Evaluation of SSFTA structure. Comparison with existing studies  
Now, BCT has expanded well beyond bitcoin and is being tried out in a variety of corporate and financial contexts. However, a major obstacle to blockchain's disruptive potential is that the technology is still in its infancy and has not been demonstrated at the business size. Several accounting firms have launched blockchain projects to learn more about the potential of this technology, yet only a select number have used it in their audits. Much of the current research, as shown in Table 2, just investigate the possibilities and identifies the difficulties of using BCT in auditing. Moreover, not a single one of these investigations is dedicated to software audit rather than financial transaction audit. In addition, the proposed remedies in these studies are only suggestions and have not been subjected to any kind of empirical testing. The current studies on how BCT is used in auditing only use BCT to make the auditing process easier. They do not look at how other cutting-edge technologies could be used. Our proposed work is different from what has already been performed in many ways: First, it looks at the role of BCT in the process of auditing software. Second, SSFTA offers a complete auditing process with efficient ways to store, send, and protect audit data. SSFTA uses the power of 5G, cloud computing, and BCT to make the auditing process speedy and transparent. Following are the limitations and weaknesses of the proposed methodology  
1. We did not find enough studies on software audit using blockchain, so it was difficult to find the parameters based on which proposed framework SSFTA may be compared with existing research
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