arXiv (Cornell University)
Technical Debts and Faults in Open-source Quantum Software Systems: An Empirical Study
June 2022 • Moses Openja, Mohammad Mehdi Morovati, Le An, Foutse Khomh, Mouna Abidi
Quantum computing is a rapidly growing field attracting the interest of both researchers and software developers. Supported by its numerous open-source tools, developers can now build, test, or run their quantum algorithms. Although the maintenance practices for traditional software systems have been extensively studied, the maintenance of quantum software is still a new field of study but a critical part to ensure the quality of a whole quantum computing system. In this work, we set out to investigate the distrib…