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Property-based testing has been previously proposed for quantum programs in Q# with QSharpCheck; however, this implementation was limited in functionality, lacked extensibility, and was evaluated on a narrow range of programs using a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Gabriel Pontolillo , Mohammad Reza Mousavi , Marek Grzesiuk

To realize reliable quantum software, techniques to automatically ensure the quantum software's correctness have recently been investigated. However, they primarily focus on fixed quantum circuits rather than the procedure of building…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Masaomi Yamaguchi , Nobukazu Yoshioka

We present CertiQ, a verification framework for writing and verifying compiler passes of Qiskit, the most widely-used quantum compiler. To our knowledge, CertiQ is the first effort enabling the verification of real-world quantum compiler…

We introduce a novel framework for implementing error-correction in constrained systems. The main idea of our scheme, called Quantized-Constraint Concatenation (QCC), is to employ a process of embedding the codewords of an error-correcting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Dor Elimelech , Tom Meyerovitch , Moshe Schwartz

The problem of quantum test is formally addressed. The presented method attempts the quantum role of classical test generation and test set reduction methods known from standard binary and analog circuits. QuFault, the authors software…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacob D. Biamonte , Marek A. Perkowski

Entangled quantum states are essential ingredients for many quantum technologies, but they must be validated before they are used. As a full characterization is prohibitively resource-intensive, recent work has focused on developing methods…

Code clones, referring to identical or similar code fragments, have long posed challenges in classical programming, impacting software quality, maintainability, and scalability. However, their presence and characteristics in quantum…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Kenta Manoku , Jianjun Zhao

Quantum programs are designed to run on quantum computers, leveraging quantum circuits to solve problems that are intractable for classical machines. As quantum computing advances, ensuring the reliability of quantum programs has become…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Tiancheng Jin , Shangzhou Xia , Jianjun Zhao

Quantum computers have the potential to solve certain problems faster than classical computers by exploiting quantum mechanical effects such as superposition. However, building high-quality quantum software is challenging due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Julian Shen , Joshua Ammermann , Christoph König , Ina Schaefer

The emergence of variational quantum applications has led to the development of automatic differentiation techniques in quantum computing. Recently, Zhu et al. (PLDI 2020) have formulated differentiable quantum programming with bounded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Wang Fang , Mingsheng Ying , Xiaodi Wu

Analysis and verification of quantum circuits are highly challenging, given the exponential dependence of the number of states on the number of qubits. For analytical derivation, we propose a new quantum polynomial representation (QPR) to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Yu-Ting Kao , Hao-Yu Lu , Yeong-Jar Chang , Darsen Lu

Accurate classification of software bugs is essential for improving software quality. This paper presents a rule-based automated framework for classifying issues in quantum software repositories by bug type, category, severity, and impacted…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Mir Mohammad Yousuf , Shabir Ahmad Sofi

Branch coverage of source code is a very widely used test criterion. Moreover, branch coverage is a similar problem to line coverage, MC/DC and the coverage of assertion violations, certain runtime errors and various other types of test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Nicky Williams

With the accelerating development of quantum technologies and their growing computational potential, quantum systems are being adapted for simulations and other critical tasks across diverse domains, making the reliability of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Maryse Ernzer , Seung Yeob Shin , Fabrizio Pastore , Domenico Bianculli

Quantum computing has made tremendous improvements in both software and hardware that have sparked interest in academia and industry to realize quantum computing applications. To this end, several steps are necessary: The underlying problem…

The continuous growth of quantum computing and the increasingly complex quantum programs resulting from it lead to unprecedented obstacles in ensuring program correctness. Runtime assertions are, therefore, becoming a crucial tool in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Damian Rovara , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

Demonstrating quantum advantage using conventional quantum algorithms remains challenging on current noisy gate-based quantum computers. Automated quantum circuit synthesis via quantum machine learning has emerged as a promising solution,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Shubing Xie , Aritra Sarkar , Sebastian Feld

While significant progress has been made on the hardware side of quantum computing, support for high-level quantum programming abstractions remains underdeveloped compared to classical programming languages. In this article, we introduce…

Nowadays, quantum program is widely used and quickly developed. However, the absence of testing methodology restricts their quality. Different input format and operator from traditional program make this issue hard to resolve. In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Jiyuan Wang , Ming Gao , Yu Jiang , Jianguang Lou , Yue Gao , Dongmei Zhang , Jiaguang Sun

Quantum computing has become an active research field in recent years, as its applications in fields such as cryptography, optimization, and materials science are promising. Along with these developments, challenges and opportunities exist…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Neilson Carlos Leite Ramalho , Erico A. da Silva , Higor Amario de Souza , Marcos Lordello Chaim