QBugs: A Collection of Reproducible Bugs in Quantum Algorithms and a Supporting Infrastructure to Enable Controlled Quantum Software Testing and Debugging Experiments

Reproducibility and comparability of empirical results are at the core tenet of the scientific method in any scientific field. To ease reproducibility of empirical studies, several benchmarks in software engineering research, such as Defects4J, have been developed and widely used. For quantum softwa...

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Published in2021 IEEE/ACM 2nd International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE) pp. 28 - 32
Main Authors Campos, Jose, Souto, Andre
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.06.2021
Subjects
Benchmark testing
Computer bugs
Conferences
Debugging
Quantum algorithm
Quantum software testing
Software bugs
Software engineering
Software testing
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Summary:Reproducibility and comparability of empirical results are at the core tenet of the scientific method in any scientific field. To ease reproducibility of empirical studies, several benchmarks in software engineering research, such as Defects4J, have been developed and widely used. For quantum software engineering research, however, no benchmark has been established yet. In this position paper, we propose a new benchmark-named QBugs-which will provide experimental subjects and an experimental infrastructure to ease the evaluation of new research and the reproducibility of previously published results on quantum software engineering.
DOI:10.1109/Q-SE52541.2021.00013