ASE 2025
Sun 16 - Thu 20 November 2025 Seoul, South Korea
Mon 17 Nov 2025 16:40 - 16:50 at Grand Hall 5 - Quantum Software Engineering Chair(s): Tao Yue

Abstraction is a foundational principle in classical software engineering, enabling modularity, reuse, and scalability. However, quantum programs are governed by fundamentally different semantics, unitarity, entanglement, and measurement collapse, which challenge the safe use of classical abstraction mechanisms. This paper identifies a fundamental conflict in quantum software engineering: abstraction practices that are syntactically valid may violate the physical constraints of quantum computation. We present three classes of failure cases where naïve abstraction breaks quantum semantics and propose a set of design principles for physically sound abstraction mechanisms. We further outline research directions, including quantum-specific type systems, effect annotations, and contract-based module design. Our goal is to initiate a systematic rethinking of abstraction in quantum programming, grounded in quantum semantics and informed by engineering scalability.

Mon 17 Nov

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16:00 - 16:50
Quantum Software EngineeringNIER / Industry Showcase at Grand Hall 5
Chair(s): Tao Yue Beihang University
16:00
10m
Talk
Is Measurement Enough? Rethinking Output Validation in Quantum Program Testing
NIER
Jiaming Ye Southwest Jiaotong University, Xiongfei Wu University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Shangzhou Xia Kyushu University, Fuyuan Zhang Kyushu University, Jianjun Zhao Kyushu University
16:10
10m
Talk
Quantum Machine Learning-based Test Oracle for Autonomous Mobile Robots
Industry Showcase
Xinyi Wang Simula Research Laboratory; University of Oslo, Xu Qinghua Lero Research Center&University of Limerick, Paolo Arcaini National Institute of Informatics , Shaukat Ali Simula Research Laboratory and Oslo Metropolitan University, Thomas Peyrucain PAL Robotics
Pre-print
16:20
10m
Talk
NovaQ: Improving Quantum Program Testing through Diversity-Guided Test Case Generation
NIER
TIANCHENG JIN Kyushu University, Shangzhou Xia Kyushu University, Jianjun Zhao Kyushu University
16:30
10m
Talk
M2QCode: A Model-Driven Framework for Generating Multi-Platform Quantum Programs
Industry Showcase
Xiaoyu Guo Kyushu University, Shinobu Saito NTT, Inc., Jianjun Zhao Kyushu University
16:40
10m
Talk
When Abstraction Breaks Physics: Rethinking Modular Design in Quantum Software
NIER
Jianjun Zhao Kyushu University