Perez-Delgado C., Perez-Gonzalez H. G., 2020, Towards a Quantum Software Modeling Language, ICSEW’20: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering Workshops (ICSEW’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 442–444. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3387940.3392183
We set down the principles behind a modeling language for quantum software. We present a minimal set of extensions to the well-known Unified Modeling Language (UML) that allows it to effectively model quantum software. These extensions are separate and independent of UML as a whole. As such they can be used to extend any other software modeling language, or as a basis for a completely new language. We argue that these extensions are both necessary and sufficient to model, abstractly, any piece of quantum software. Finally, we provide a small set of examples that showcase the effectiveness of the extension set.
