2018/12/21 by Andriy Miranskyy, Lei Zhang · 1 voice · 1 citation
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #cs.ET #cs.SE #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1109/icse-nier.2019.00023
published as Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results, 2019, pp. 57-60 · A condensed version to appear in Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2019)
arxiv created 2018/12/21 · arxiv published 2018/12/21 · arxiv updated 2019/07/09
A quantum computer (QC) can solve many computational problems more efficiently than a classic one. The field of QCs is growing: companies (such as DWave, IBM, Google, and Microsoft) are building QC offerings. We position that software engineers should look into defining a set of software engineering practices that apply to QC's software. To start this process, we give examples of challenges associated with testing such software and sketch potential solutions to some of these challenges.