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Given an issue on a software repository, a reproduction test confirms its presence in the code before it gets fixed and its absence after. Reproduction tests provide crucial execution-based feedback for diagnosis and validation during…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Toufique Ahmed , Jatin Ganhotra , Avraham Shinnar , Martin Hirzel

While there has been plenty of work on generating tests from existing code, there has been limited work on generating tests from issues. A correct test must validate the code patch that resolves the issue. This paper focuses on the scenario…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Toufique Ahmed , Jatin Ganhotra , Rangeet Pan , Avraham Shinnar , Saurabh Sinha , Martin Hirzel

Software testing is crucial for ensuring the correctness and reliability of software systems. Automated generation of issue reproduction tests from natural language issue descriptions enhances developer productivity by simplifying root…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Aditya Bharat Soni , Rajat Ghosh , Vaishnavi Bhargava , Valerie Chen , Debojyoti Dutta

Identifying the root cause of a bug remains difficult for many developers because bug reports often lack a bug reproducing test case that reliably triggers the failure. Manually writing such test cases is time-consuming and requires…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zhiwei Fei , Yue Pan , Federica Sarro , Jidong Ge , Marc Liu , Vincent Ng , He Ye

Constructing large-scale datasets for the GitHub issue resolution task is crucial for both training and evaluating the software engineering capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the existing GitHub issue resolution data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Lianghong Guo , Yanlin Wang , Caihua Li , Wei Tao , Pengyu Yang , Jiachi Chen , Haoyu Song , Duyu Tang , Zibin Zheng

Test suites in real-world projects are often large and achieve high code coverage, yet they remain insufficient for detecting all bugs. The abundance of unresolved issues in open-source project trackers highlights this gap. While regression…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yang Chen , Toufique Ahmed , Reyhaneh Jabbarvand , Martin Hirzel

Tests can be useful towards resolving issues on code repositories. However, relying too much on tests for issue resolution can lead to code that technically passes observed tests but actually misses important cases or even breaks…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Toufique Ahmed , Jatin Ganhotra , Avraham Shinnar , Martin Hirzel

Execution-based feedback like unit testing is widely used in the development of coding agents through test-time scaling (TTS) and reinforcement learning (RL). This paradigm requires scalable and reliable collection of unit test cases to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-29 KaShun Shum , Binyuan Hui , Jiawei Chen , Lei Zhang , X. W. , Jiaxi Yang , Yuzhen Huang , Junyang Lin , Junxian He

Regression testing is crucial in ensuring that pure code refactoring does not adversely affect existing software functionality, but it can be expensive, accounting for half the cost of software maintenance. Automated test case generation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Alejandra Duque-Torres , Claus Klammer , Dietmar Pfahl , Stefan Fischer , Rudolf Ramler

In this technical report, we present SWE-Master, an open-source and fully reproducible post-training framework for building effective software engineering agents. SWE-Master systematically explores the complete agent development pipeline,…

Benchmarks like SWE-bench have standardized the evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) on repository-level software engineering tasks. However, these efforts remain limited by manual curation, static datasets, and a focus on…

Code Agent development is an extremely active research area, where a reliable performance metric is critical for tracking progress and guiding new developments. This demand is underscored by the meteoric rise in popularity of SWE-Bench.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Konstantinos Vergopoulos , Mark Niklas Müller , Martin Vechev

Language models (LMs) perform well on standardized coding benchmarks but struggle with real-world software engineering tasks such as resolving GitHub issues in SWE-Bench, especially when model parameters are less than 100B. While smaller…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Guangtao Zeng , Maohao Shen , Delin Chen , Zhenting Qi , Subhro Das , Dan Gutfreund , David Cox , Gregory Wornell , Wei Lu , Zhang-Wei Hong , Chuang Gan

Progress in software-engineering agents is increasingly constrained by the scarcity of executable, scalable, and realistic data for training and evaluation. This scarcity stems from three fundamental challenges in existing pipelines:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yucheng Zeng , Shupeng Li , Daxiang Dong , Ruijie Xu , Zimo Chen , Liwei Zheng , Yuxuan Li , Zhe Zhou , Haotian Zhao , Lun Tian , Heng Xiao , Tianshu Zhu , Longkun Hao , Jianmin Wu

Recent advancements in language modeling have enabled the translation of natural language into code, and the use of execution feedback to improve code generation. However, these methods often rely heavily on pre-existing test cases, which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Nan Wang , Yafei Liu , Chen Chen , Haonan Lu

Developing test oracles can be inefficient: developer generative oracles are time-intensive and thus costly while automatic oracle generation in the form of regression or exception oracles assumes that the underlying code is correct. To…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Kasra Lekan , Nicki Choquette

Automated tools for solving GitHub issues are receiving significant attention by both researchers and practitioners, e.g., in the form of foundation models and LLM-based agents prompted with issues. A crucial step toward successfully…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Noor Nashid , Islem Bouzenia , Michael Pradel , Ali Mesbah

Executable software engineering data is valuable for training SWE agents, but scaling it remains difficult for two reasons: only a small fraction of real repository changes yield verifiable, high-signal task instances, and naively building…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jiarong Liang , Zhiheng Lyu , Zijie Liu , Xiangchao Chen , Ping Nie , Kai Zou , Wenhu Chen

Creating large-scale verifiable training datasets for issue-resolving tasks is a critical yet notoriously difficult challenge. Existing methods on automating the Gym environment setup process for real-world issues suffer from low success…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Junhao Wang , Daoguang Zan , Shulin Xin , Siyao Liu , Yurong Wu , Kai Shen

Ensuring correctness is crucial for code generation. Formal verification offers a definitive assurance of correctness, but demands substantial human effort in proof construction and hence raises a pressing need for automation. The primary…

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