S. Klikovits, M. R. Mousavi: Foreword to the Sixth International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE 2025), 2025 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE), co-located with IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025) in Ottawa, ON, Canada, April 27-May 3 2025. Doi 10.1109/Q-SE66736.2025.00005
On behalf of the organizing and program committees, we welcome you to the 6th International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE 2025), co-located with the 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025). With the recent advances in the development of powerful new quantum computing hardware, high-level languages to write quantum programs such as Microsoft’s Q#, Google’s Cirq, and IBM’s Qiskit have also started to appear. The Q-SE workshop follows the goal to build a community for quantum software engineering (Q-SE), focusing on devising methods, approaches, and processes to develop correct software for quantum programs efficiently. The workshop is a platform for researchers and practitioners to discuss challenges in developing quantum software in high-level Quantum languages, novel solutions to build correct methods for testing quantum programs, executing quantum software, developing best practices, and creating a research roadmap of quantum Software engineering.