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Software Testing in the Quantum World

Published: January 20, 2026 | arXiv ID: 2601.13996v2

By: Rui Abreu , Shaukat Ali , Paolo Arcaini and more

Potential Business Impact:

Tests big quantum programs on real quantum computers.

Business Areas:
Quantum Computing Science and 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.

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Page Count
4 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Software Engineering