After the assessment by the Spanish accreditation body ENAC, AQCLab has renewed its ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation for software and data quality evaluations based on the ISO/IEC 25000 series of standards. AQCLab remains the first and only laboratory accredited for this type of evaluations.
ENAC/ILAC accreditation provides confidence both in the competence of the laboratory and its staff to deliver reliable results, and in its ability to provide a service appropriate to the needs of its clients. For companies, trusting in a laboratory that ensures maximum technical competence is essential to guarantee the reliability of their products, minimise risks and increase the confidence of their customers as well as the acceptance of their products in other markets.
Based on the results of the assessments performed by AQCLab, our clients can obtain a quality certification in accordance with ISO/IEC 25000. If your company is interested in assessing the quality of your software products or data, please contact us via the following link.
Our colleagues Ana Díaz, Javier Verdugo, Moisés Rodríguez and Mario Piattini, in collaboration with Jose Antonio Cruz-Lemus from UCLM and Rafael Martinez-Gasca from the University of Seville, have published the article Environment for the Evaluation of Hybrid (Classical-Quantum) Systems Analyzability in the IEEE Software journal, currently available in Early Access mode.
Quantum computing is growing rapidly, making it possible to tackle problems that traditional computers cannot solve effectively. However, quantum computing will not replace traditional computing, but rather the two will coexist in hybrid systems. As with conventional software, it is essential to assess and ensure the quality of these new hybrid systems, especially their maintainability.
In this paper we present a methodological and technological environment consisting of a set of properties and metrics and automated tools that allow assessments of the analyzability of hybrid software, one of the sub-characteristics of maintainability. Furthermore, our proposal has been applied to a real case of hybrid product, demonstrating its usefulness.
Our colleagues Ana Díaz and Moisés Rodríguez, in collaboration with colleagues from the Alarcos Research Group (UCLM) and the Quercus Software Engineering Group (Universidad de Extremadura), have published the article Service engineering for quantum computing: Ensuring high-quality quantum services in volume 179 of the journal Information and Software Technology.
This research offers a fundamental contribution to the evolution of quantum computing by introducing a comprehensive framework for quantum software quality assurance. To this end, a solution for defining and using quantum services has been defined by employing classical service engineering techniques and methods.
In this way, 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.
In the research work carried out, 40 implementations of quantum algorithms have been subject to a detailed and individualized evaluation using the developed environment, with the results revealling a 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.
AQCLab's Scientific Director, Mario Piattini, in his capacity as secretary of SC7 of UNE STC 71 - Digital Enabling Technologies (THD), attended the meetings of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7/WG6 working group held in Rome from 10 to 15 November. The working group, made up of software quality experts from more than 20 countries, participating in face-to-face and hybrid mode, has collaborated in the development and approval of the new software, data and service quality models, mainly based on the ISO/IEC 25000 family of standards.
The book "Gobierno, Gestión y Calidad de la Inteligencia Artificial", edited by the Alarcos Research Group of the University of Castilla-La Mancha, is now available on Amazon.
"Gobierno, Gestión y Calidad de la Inteligencia Artificial", authored by AQCLab's Scientific Director Mario Piattini, provides an overview of the main standards and techniques for governance, management and quality assurance of intelligent systems. Based on the best practices compiled in this book, organisations will be able to address the challenges posed by AI by developing and deploying their own AI governance, quality and management systems in accordance with the most appropriate rights, ethical principles and engineering fundamentals.
Artificial Intelligence is increasingly influencing people's daily lives and plays a key role in the digital transformation of businesses and public bodies, thanks to its ability to automate and facilitate decision-making. The benefits that intelligent systems can bring are extraordinary, but even greater can be the risks they entail. This is why in recent years there has been so much emphasis on the need for ‘trusted’ (‘responsible’) AI, which respects legal and ethical issues, and which allows robust intelligent systems to be built and operated.
You can purchase the book on Amazon, both as a Kindle version and as a softcover print edition.
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