QuCAT: A Combinatorial Testing Tool for Quantum Software

With the increased developments in quantum computing, the availability of systematic and automatic testing approaches for quantum programs is becoming increasingly essential. To this end, we present the quantum software testing tool QuCAT for combinatorial testing of quantum programs. QuCAT provides...

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Published in:IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering : [proceedings] pp. 2066 - 2069
Main Authors: Wang, Xinyi, Arcaini, Paolo, Yue, Tao, Ali, Shaukat
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 11.09.2023
Subjects:
Automatic testing
Combinatorial testing
Costs
Quantum computing
quantum programs
Software
Software engineering
software testing
Systematics
ISSN:2643-1572
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Summary:With the increased developments in quantum computing, the availability of systematic and automatic testing approaches for quantum programs is becoming increasingly essential. To this end, we present the quantum software testing tool QuCAT for combinatorial testing of quantum programs. QuCAT provides two functionalities of use. With the first functionality, the tool generates a test suite of a given strength (e.g., pairwise). With the second functionality, it generates test suites with increasing strength until a failure is triggered or a maximum strength is reached. QuCAT uses two test oracles to check the correctness of test outputs. We assess the cost and effectiveness of QuCAT with 3 faulty versions of 5 quantum programs. Results show that combinatorial test suites with a low strength can find faults with limited cost, while a higher strength performs better to trigger some difficult faults with relatively higher cost.
ISSN:2643-1572
DOI:10.1109/ASE56229.2023.00062