Software Testing in the Quantum World

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Main Authors: Abreu, Rui, Ali, Shaukat, Arcaini, Paolo, Campos, Jose, Felderer, Michael, Gravel, Claude, Ishikawa, Fuyuki, Klikovits, Stefan, Miranskyy, Andriy, Mjeda, Anila, Mousavi, Mohammad Reza, Yamaguchi, Masaomi, Zhang, Lei, Zhao, Jianjun
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Published: 2026
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author Abreu, Rui
Ali, Shaukat
Arcaini, Paolo
Campos, Jose
Felderer, Michael
Gravel, Claude
Ishikawa, Fuyuki
Klikovits, Stefan
Miranskyy, Andriy
Mjeda, Anila
Mousavi, Mohammad Reza
Yamaguchi, Masaomi
Zhang, Lei
Zhao, Jianjun
author_facet Abreu, Rui
Ali, Shaukat
Arcaini, Paolo
Campos, Jose
Felderer, Michael
Gravel, Claude
Ishikawa, Fuyuki
Klikovits, Stefan
Miranskyy, Andriy
Mjeda, Anila
Mousavi, Mohammad Reza
Yamaguchi, Masaomi
Zhang, Lei
Zhao, Jianjun
contents 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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spellingShingle Software Testing in the Quantum World
Abreu, Rui
Ali, Shaukat
Arcaini, Paolo
Campos, Jose
Felderer, Michael
Gravel, Claude
Ishikawa, Fuyuki
Klikovits, Stefan
Miranskyy, Andriy
Mjeda, Anila
Mousavi, Mohammad Reza
Yamaguchi, Masaomi
Zhang, Lei
Zhao, Jianjun
Software Engineering
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.
title Software Testing in the Quantum World
topic Software Engineering
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13996