Sicaman has obtained the certification of conformance to ISO/IEC 25000 Functional Suitability for their software product KnowLights. The certificate has been issued by AENOR after the evaluation from AQCLab.
The evaluation and certification of KnowLights has been carried out thanks to the collaboration between AENOR, AQCLab and Sicaman, following the software product quality evaluation and certification process, in which AQCLab has acted as the evaluation laboratory and has supported Sicaman in the improvement of the quality of its software product in order to achieve certification in conformance to ISO/IEC 25000.
The certified product, Knowlights, is an adaptable online training platform that allows courses to be delivered worldwide based on SaaS models. Based on the Moodle platform, it can be customised to the needs of clients and users, adding and configuring the modules required. KnowLights has an integrated solution in the platform to create interactive rooms with audio, webcam and screen sharing among other tools. It also allows tracking the progress of the students through the generation of reports, and allows its clients to market and invoice the courses created on the platform, providing a payment gateway.
The Functional Suitability evaluation helps to ensure that the software product being evaluated fully and correctly meets the requirements specified for it, thus helping to improve customer confidence and satisfaction, and providing a differentiating element with respect to its competitors.
Our colleagues Mario Piattini, Moisés Rodríguez and Javier Verdugo, together with the professor of Universidad del Cauca, Francisco Pino and AENOR ICT Manager Boris Delgado, have published the article: Software Development Process Assessment With MMIS v.2, an ISO/IEC 33000-Based Model in the issue No. 6, Vol. 23, December 2021 of the IEEE IT Professional magazine.
Today, companies that want to digitally transform their products and services are changing the shape and scope of their quality assurance processes. Based on the ISO/IEC 33000 and ISO/IEC 12207 standards, we have built a new maturity model called MMIS V2.0, which has been applied over the last few years in more than 20 companies.
In the article we present the experience of these companies in implementing and certifying MMIS 2.0, assessing its usefulness and obtaining feedback for improvement. In addition, during this study, we have identified the processes that are most difficult for companies to implement, as well as the main software tools and frameworks used to support the development lifecycle.
Mario Piattini, Scientific Director of AQCLab is among the best researchers in the world according to the latest edition of the ranking prepared by John P. A. Ioannidis (Stanford University, USA) and co-authors, which analyses their scientific production and the number of times they have been cited, among other criteria.
In this way, Mario de is placed at the top of the international science and technology system by virtue of the ranking carried out by Stanford University and published in the journal PlosBiology. The work is based on the information contained in the Scopus database to evaluate scientists by the impact of their citations. Overall, it shows the contributions of the top 100,000 researchers in all fields according to the composite citation index, as well as other colleagues who are in the top 2% of scientists in their main discipline.
The latest update of the study Updated science-wide author databases of standardised citation indicators, known as the Stanford ranking, shows that, overall, Spain is ranked 13th in terms of the number of researchers in the career list and 11th in the list.
AQCLab, member of aQNetwork, has become one of the first QuantumPath Research Partners. This way, AQCLab and aQuantum will collaborate for assuring and improving quantum software quality.
The QuantumPath Research Partner Agreement provides organizations such as AQCLab with access to and use of QuantumPath, the platform for the development and life cycle of quantum algorithms and software applications.
The idea is to propose a specific quantum software quality model aligned with the general ISO/IEC standards family, considering the special nature of quantum computing. In terms of metrics, most of the research deals with the measurement of the power of quantum computing (e.g., quantum volume), but there are very few metrics conceived specifically for quantum software. It is very important to have both agnostic and technology-specific metrics to boost large-scale production of quantum software with an adequate quality level.
To achieve the expected goals of the collaboration, aQuantum and AQCLab will carry out several Proofs of Concept (PoC) and industrial case studies in this area with QuantumPath.
The Alarcos Research Group in collaboration with aQuantum have organised the second edition of the Quantum Software Engineering and Technology Workshop (QuSET) held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (IEEE Quantum Week).
In this edition, Javier Verdugo and Moisés Rodríguez of AQCLab took the opportunity to participe in this workshop and raise awareness of the need to produce quality quantum software with their talk "Software Quality Issues in Quantum Information Systems".
In this way, AQCLab continues researching on how to adapt or create new techniques and environments to ensure the quality of software processes and products that use new technologies, such as quantum computing.
The workshop also covered topics such as the challenges of offering quantum computing services and quantum applications in the cloud, proposals for the development, engineering and testing of quantum software, the challenges of the hybrid model for microservices integrating classical and quantum computing, and aspects related to cybersecurity, among others.
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