Challenges of Quantum Software Engineering for the Next Decade: The Road Ahead

Juan Manuel Murillo, José Garcia-Alonso, Enrique Moguel, Johanna Barzen, F. Leymann, Shaukat Ali, Paolo Arcaini, Ricardo Peréz, Ignacio García Rodríguez De Guzman, Mario Piattini, Antonio Ruiz Cortés, Antonio Brogi, Jianjun Zhao, Andriy V. Miranskyy, Manuel Wimmer

Research output: Working paper and reportsPreprint

Abstract

As quantum computers evolve, so does the complexity of the software that they can run. To make this software efficient, maintainable, reusable, and cost-effective, quality attributes that any industry-grade software should strive for, mature software engineering approaches should be applied during its design, development, and operation. Due to the significant differences between classical and quantum software, applying classical software engineering solutions to quantum software is difficult. This resulted in the birth of Quantum Software Engineering as a discipline in the contemporary software engineering landscape. In this work, a set of active researchers is currently addressing the challenges of Quantum Software Engineering and analyzing the most recent research advances in this domain. This analysis is used to identify needed breakthroughs and future research directions for Quantum Software Engineering.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

Publication series

NamearXiv.org
No.2404.06825

Fields of science

  • 102006 Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW)
  • 102015 Information systems
  • 102016 IT security
  • 102020 Medical informatics
  • 102022 Software development
  • 102027 Web engineering
  • 102034 Cyber-physical systems
  • 509026 Digitalisation research
  • 102040 Quantum computing 
  • 502032 Quality management
  • 502050 Business informatics
  • 503015 Subject didactics of technical sciences

JKU Focus areas

  • Digital Transformation

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