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Develo­p­ment Platform

In the Quantum Software Enginee­ring context, platform refers to the founda­tio­nal environ­ment on which software is built, run, and managed. It is a collec­tion of hardware, opera­ting systems, frame­works, and runtime services that provi­des a standar­di­zed environ­ment for creating and execu­ting appli­ca­ti­ons (for example, Windows or Android platforms). In cloud compu­ting, a platform often means a cloud-based environ­ment (such as a Platform-as-a-Service offering) that supplies managed infra­struc­ture plus integra­ted services for develo­ping, deploy­ing, and opera­ting appli­ca­ti­ons. Such platforms abstract away servers, networ­king, and much of the infra­struc­ture manage­ment, letting develo­pers focus on appli­ca­tion logic while the platform handles scala­bi­lity, relia­bi­lity, and lifecy­cle operations.

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Design patterns

A design pattern is an abstract descrip­tion of how a recur­ring problem within a…

Workflows

In the context of software, a workflow descri­bes the struc­tu­red sequence of activi­ties, whether manual or automa­ted, states, and transi­ti­ons through which…

Standar­diza­tion (Appli­ca­tion Programming Inter­faces, APIs)

Standar­diza­tion in software develo­p­ment and APIs… 

Best practi­ces (e.g. clean code, documentation)

A best practice in software develo­p­ment is a method or guide­line that has proven over time to be effec­tive in addres­sing a recur­ring problem or accom­pli­shing a speci­fic task in a relia­ble, effici­ent, and maintainable manner.

Testing, debug­ging, verification

Testing in software develo­p­ment is the syste­ma­tic process of execu­ting a program or system with the objec­tive of…

AI powered code generation

AI Powered Code Genera­tion in software develo­p­ment refers to the use of artifi­cial intel­li­gence models to…

Conti­nuous Develo­p­ment / Conti­nuous Integration

Conti­nuous develo­p­ment is an overar­ching approach in which code changes are conti­nuously imple­men­ted, integra­ted, tested, and…

High Level Programming Languages (e.g. QRISP)

A high level programming language such as Python or QRISP is highly abstrac­ted from machine code and allows develo­pers to work with…

Domain speci­fic programming languages (DSLs)

A domain speci­fic language (DSL) in software develo­p­ment is a programming language that is specia­li­zed for a parti­cu­lar appli­ca­tion domain, problem area, or class of tasks.

Hardware Speci­fic Programming Languages

In the context of quantum software enginee­ring, hardware speci­fic refers to…

Low Level Programming Languages (e.g. Qiskit)

High level and low level programming languages differ prima­rily in how closely they…

Software Develo­p­ment Kit (SDK)

A Software Develo­p­ment Kit (SDK) is a bundled collec­tion of tools, libra­ries, and documen­ta­tion that…

General Purpose Emula­tors (e.g. state vector, QASM, tensor networks)

A General Purpose Emula­tor in quantum compu­ting software develo­p­ment is a classi­cal software tool or simula­tor that…

Specia­li­zed Emula­tors (e.g. STIM, QRyd)

In high perfor­mance compu­ting (HPC), specia­li­zed emula­tors refer to emula­tion tools or platforms that…

Quantum high perfor­mance compu­ting integration

Quantum HPC integra­tion in quantum compu­ting software develo­p­ment refers to the…

Services QaaS

Quantum as a Service (QaaS) is a cloud service model that provi­des location indepen­dent, on demand access to quantum compu­ting resour­ces, inclu­ding real quantum proces­sors, emula­tors, and develo­p­ment tools, via the internet.

Hybrid Cloud

A hybrid cloud in software develo­p­ment and cloud compu­ting descri­bes an archi­tec­ture in which appli­ca­ti­ons and data are distri­bu­ted across a combi­na­tion of private and public cloud environments.

Manage­ment and opera­tion of cloud quantum compu­ting (e.g. orchestra­tion, scheduling)

The term descri­bes how a cloud based quantum compu­ting (QC) environ­ment is opera­ted in practice: how jobs…

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