The Talavera Manifesto for Quantum Software Engineering and Programming

This manifesto collects some principles and commitments about the quantum software engineering and programming field, as well as some calls for action. This is the result of the discussion and different viewpoints of academia and industry practitioners who joined at the first International Workshop on QuANtum SoftWare Engineering & pRogramming (QANSWER) promoted by aQuantum.

We believe Quantum Software Engineering (QSE) is a necessary contribution to the success of quantum computing. We feel that the time has come to take care of producing quantum software by applying knowledge and lessons learned from the software engineering field. This implies to apply or adapt the existing soft-ware engineering processes, methods, techniques, practices and principles for the development of quantum software (or it may imply creating new ones).

We recognize that there is a rapidly-increasing awareness of the need for quantum computing applications, and there is a great desire to produce quantum software in an industrial, controlled manner. However, this is ineffective unless we come to understand how software engineering can help.