Software Testing in the Quantum World
Software Engineering
2026-01-22 v2
Abstract
Quantum computing offers significant speedups for simulating physical, chemical, and biological systems, and for optimization and machine learning. As quantum software grows in complexity, the classical simulation of quantum computers, which has long been essential for quality assurance, becomes infeasible. This shift requires new quality-assurance methods that operate directly on real quantum computers. This paper presents the key challenges in testing large-scale quantum software and offers software engineering perspectives for addressing them.
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@article{arxiv.2601.13996,
title = {Software Testing in the Quantum World},
author = {Rui Abreu and Shaukat Ali and Paolo Arcaini and Jose Campos and Michael Felderer and Claude Gravel and Fuyuki Ishikawa and Stefan Klikovits and Andriy Miranskyy and Anila Mjeda and Mohammad Reza Mousavi and Masaomi Yamaguchi and Lei Zhang and Jianjun Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.13996},
year = {2026}
}