  Bug patterns are erroneous code idioms or bad coding practices that have been
proved to fail time and time again, which are usually caused by the
misunderstanding of a programming language's features, the use of erroneous
design patterns, or simple mistakes sharing common behaviors. This paper
identifies and categorizes some bug patterns in the quantum programming
language Qiskit and briefly discusses how to eliminate or prevent those bug
patterns. We take this research as the first step to provide an underlying
basis for debugging and testing quantum programs.

Software Engineering;Programming Languages;Quantum Physics