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Service engineering for quantum computing: Ensuring high-quality quantum services
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DOI：10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107643.png)
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Context: Quantum computing is transforming the world and driving advanced applications in fields such as healthcare and economics. However, ensuring high-quality quantum software remains critical to its adoption across the industry. As quantum technology moves closer to practical applications, it faces significant challenges. Developers face platform-dependent complexities that make the creation of quantum applications a time-consuming process. In addition, the lack of mature tools further hampers progress and can compromise the quality of service. Objective: The objective of this paper is to address the pressing need for quantum software quality assurance, presenting a solution for defining and using quantum services, by employing classical service engineering techniques and methods. Methods: A process is presented for improving the generation, deployment, and quality assessment of quantum services using an extended OpenAPI Specification and the SonarQube tool. This process also integrates the automatic generation of code for the IBM Quantum provider and its deployment in containers ready for user consumption. Results: After a detailed and individualized evaluation of the 40 implementations of quantum algorithms using the developed environment, the results reveal significant variability in the analyzability of the algorithms. This will serve in the future as a reference and guide for the continuous improvement of quantum algorithms in terms of their performance and efficiency in solving complex problems in various quantum application areas. Conclusions: This research offers a fundamental contribution to the evolution of quantum computing by introducing a comprehensive framework for quantum software quality assurance. The proposed approach not only addresses some of the existing problems in quantum software, but also paves the way for the development of quantum algorithms and their servitization.
Keywords:
Quantum computing
Quantum software engineering
Quantum software quality
Process improvement
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