QuCAT: A Combinatorial Testing Tool for Quantum Software

August 31, 2023 · Entered Twilight · 🏛 International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

Repo contents: GenerateUnitTest.py, QR_Sample, README.md, executing.py, experiment_data, generatedTestSuites, generating.py, overview.png, qucat.py, qucat_logo.png

Authors Xinyi Wang, Paolo Arcaini, Tao Yue, Shaukat Ali arXiv ID 2309.00119 Category cs.SE: Software Engineering Citations 16 Venue International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Repository https://github.com/Simula-COMPLEX/qucat-tool ⭐ 1 Last Checked 1 month ago

Abstract

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., pair-wise). 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. Repository: https://github.com/Simula-COMPLEX/qucat-tool Video: https://youtu.be/UsqgOudKLio