Preface

With the raise of quantum computers, first quantum algorithms came up with promis-
ing results, and Quantum Computing is becoming more and more a mature area while
an investment scalation is happening in this field.
   In the next years, companies will progressively need to add quantum computing to
some (or all) of their daily operations. It is clear that both the research and the practi-
tioner communities must give an answer to deal with this new challenge. Thus, Soft-
ware Engineering and Programming practices need to be brought into the domain of
Quantum Computing. To achieve this, QANSWER (1 st International Workshop on the
QuANtum SoftWare Engineering & pRogramming) attempts to identify new or exist-
ing Software Engineering and Programming methods, techniques and practices that
are applicable to Quantum Computing.
   QANSWER is promoted by aQuantum, a research unit that groups Alarcos Re-
search group at University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) and Alhambra-Eidos
company. QANSWER has been locally organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences &
Information Technology at UCLM in Talavera de la Reina, February 11-12, 2020.
This workshop has been sponsored by the Department of Information Technology and
Systems and by the Information Technology & Systems Institute (ITSI), both at
UCLM. In addition, Talavera de la Reina City Hall and Microsoft Spain supported
this workshop as collaborators.
   The first edition of QANSWER had 11 speakers plus a round table with experts for
discussing problems in the development of quantum information systems and needs
for good practices in design, analysis, quality assurance, testing, design patterns, etc.,
for quantum software. Thus, QANSWER proceedings consists of eight papers plus
the Talavera Manifesto, in which researchers and practitioners in QANSWER collects
main commitments for Quantum Software Engineering and make some calls for ac-
tion.



February 2020
                                                                             Mario Piattini
                                                                           Guido Peterssen
                                                                     Ricardo Perez-Castillo
                                                                           Jose Luis Hevia
                                                                        Manuel A. Serrano




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