ASE 2025
Sun 16 - Thu 20 November 2025 Seoul, South Korea

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Tue 18 Nov 2025 15:10 - 15:20 at Vista - Testing & Analysis 2

Quantum software stacks (QSSs), which provide quantum circuit transformers and simulators, enable circuit transformations and the execution of circuits on classical computers. Despite their importance, they have not been effectively tested yet, leaving the correctness in question. The main obstacle to testing is the absence of a testing oracle to determine the correct behavior of transformers and simulators. While previous studies have employed differential and metamorphic testing to circumvent the necessity for an oracle, they have failed to detect non-crash bugs. In this work, we address this gap by introducing QASMInfer, an exact inference system for quantum circuits, which computes the probability distribution of possible circuit outcomes. By supporting circuits written in OpenQASM 2.0, the de facto standard quantum assembly language used by most QSSs, QASMInfer acts as a unified testing oracle for multiple QSSs. Our design of QASMInfer achieves three key goals: (1) support for dynamic circuits, an important class of quantum circuits, (2) efficiency, and (3) reliability. For efficiency, we introduce two optimizations and an efficient matrix representation. For reliability, we prove physical consistency, ensuring that QASMInfer’s inference results adhere to the physical principles of quantum computing. To simplify the proof, we introduce OpenQASMCore, a core language for OpenQASM, and perform exact inference for OpenQASM by desugaring it to OpenQASMCore. Our implementation and proof are fully mechanized in the Coq proof assistant. Testing six real-world QSSs using QASMInfer revealed 20 bugs, including 15 non-crash bugs, demonstrating QASMInfer’s effectiveness as a testing oracle.

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Tue 18 Nov

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14:00 - 15:30
Testing & Analysis 2Research Papers / Journal-First Track at Vista
14:00
10m
Talk
Quantum Circuit Mutants: Empirical Analysis and Recommendations
Journal-First Track
Eñaut Mendiluze Usandizaga Simula Research Laboratory, Norway, Shaukat Ali Simula Research Laboratory and Oslo Metropolitan University, Tao Yue Beihang University, Paolo Arcaini National Institute of Informatics
14:10
10m
Talk
MET-MAPF: A Metamorphic Testing Approach for Multi-Agent Path Finding Algorithms
Journal-First Track
Xiao-Yi Zhang University of Science and Technology Beijing, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University, Paolo Arcaini National Institute of Informatics , Mingyue Jiang Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Zheng Zheng Beihang University
14:20
10m
Talk
State Field Coverage: A Metric for Oracle Quality
Research Papers
Facundo Molina IMDEA Software Institute, Nazareno Aguirre University of Rio Cuarto and CONICET, Alessandra Gorla IMDEA Software Institute
14:30
10m
Talk
Do LLMs Generate Useful Test Oracles? An Empirical Study with an Unbiased Dataset
Research Papers
Davide Molinelli USI Lugano; Schaffhausen Institute of Technology, Luca Di Grazia University of St. Gallen, Alberto Martin-Lopez Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Michael D. Ernst University of Washington, Mauro Pezze Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) and Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
14:40
10m
Talk
Finding Safety Violations of AI-Enabled Control Systems through the Lens of Synthesized Proxy Programs
Journal-First Track
Jieke Shi Singapore Management University, Zhou Yang University of Alberta, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute , Junda He Singapore Management University, Bowen Xu North Carolina State University, Dongsun Kim Korea University, DongGyun Han Royal Holloway, University of London, David Lo Singapore Management University
Link to publication DOI Pre-print
14:50
10m
Talk
ZendDiff: Differential Testing of PHP Interpreter
Research Papers
Yuancheng Jiang National University of Singapore, Jianing Wang National University of Singapore, Qiange Liu Beihang University, Yeqi Fu National University of Singapore, Jian Mao Beihang University, Roland H. C. Yap National University of Singapore, Zhenkai Liang National University of Singapore
15:00
10m
Talk
SATORI: Static Test Oracle Generation for REST APIs
Research Papers
Juan C. Alonso Universidad de Sevilla, Alberto Martin-Lopez Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Sergio Segura SCORE Lab, I3US Institute, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain, Gabriele Bavota Software Institute @ Università della Svizzera Italiana, Antonio Ruiz-Cortés University of Seville
15:10
10m
Talk
Exact Inference for Quantum Circuits: A Testing Oracle for Quantum Software Stacks
Research Papers
Kanguk Lee KAIST, Jaemin Hong KAIST, Sukyoung Ryu KAIST
15:20
10m
Talk
Identifying inconsistent software defect predictions with symmetry metamorphic relation pattern
Journal-First Track
Chan Pak Yuen Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China, Jacky Keung City University of Hong Kong, Zhen Yang Shandong University