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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

Achieving mastery in real world software engineering tasks is fundamentally bottlenecked by the scarcity of large scale, high quality training data. Scaling such data has been limited by the complexity of environment setup, unit test…

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) and code agents has demonstrated significant potential to assist software engineering (SWE) tasks, such as autonomous issue resolution and feature addition. Existing AI for software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Zhiyu Fan , Kirill Vasilevski , Dayi Lin , Boyuan Chen , Yihao Chen , Zhiqing Zhong , Jie M. Zhang , Pinjia He , Ahmed E. Hassan

Agent skills, structured procedural knowledge packages injected at inference time, are increasingly used to augment LLM agents on software engineering tasks. However, their real utility in end-to-end development settings remains unclear. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Tingxu Han , Yi Zhang , Wei Song , Chunrong Fang , Zhenyu Chen , Youcheng Sun , Lijie Hu

As autonomous code agents move toward end-to-end software development, evaluating their practical autonomy becomes critical. Current benchmarks hide friction by testing agents in pre-configured environments, and their static evaluation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Hao Guan , Lingyue Fu , Shao Zhang , Yaoming Zhu , Kangning Zhang , Lin Qiu , Xunliang Cai , Xuezhi Cao , Weiwen Liu , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

Software engineering (SWE) agents are transitioning from code generation to full software development lifecycle automation. A critical phase in this lifecycle is specification design: transforming initial proposals into carefully considered…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Grant Hamblin , Kevin Song , Zhanda Zhu , Anand Jayarajan , Sihang Liu , Nandita Vijaykumar , Gennady Pekhimenko

Current code-agent benchmarks primarily evaluate localized issue resolution within a single target repository, leaving under-tested many software engineering tasks that require external knowledge or broader repository-level changes. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Guoxin Chen , Fanzhe Meng , Jiale Zhao , Minghao Li , Daixuan Cheng , Huatong Song , Jie Chen , Yuzhi Lin , Hui Chen , Xin Zhao , Ruihua Song , Chang Liu , Cheng Chen , Kai Jia , Ji-Rong Wen

We introduce SWE-Bench Pro, a substantially more challenging benchmark that builds upon the best practices of SWE-BENCH [25], but is explicitly designed to capture realistic, complex, enterprise-level problems beyond the scope of SWE-BENCH.…

The task of issue resolving is to modify a codebase to generate a patch that addresses a given issue. However, existing benchmarks, such as SWE-bench, focus almost exclusively on Python, making them insufficient for evaluating Large…

Repository-level code agents have shown strong promise in real-world feature addition tasks, making reliable evaluation of their capabilities increasingly important. However, existing benchmarks primarily evaluate these agents as black…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Shuhan Liu , Zhiyi Zhao , Xing Hu , Kui Liu , Xiaohu Yang , Xin Xia

AI coding agents have shown great progress on Python software engineering benchmarks like SWE-Bench, and for other languages like Java and C in benchmarks like Multi-SWE-Bench. However, C# -- a prominent enterprise language ranking #5 in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Sanket Mhatre , Yasharth Bajpai , Sumit Gulwani , Emerson Murphy-Hill , Gustavo Soares

Software documentation is crucial for repository comprehension. While Large Language Models (LLMs) advance documentation generation from code snippets to entire repositories, existing benchmarks have two key limitations: (1) they lack a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Xinchen Wang , Ruida Hu , Cuiyun Gao , Pengfei Gao , Chao Peng

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

Large language model agents have made strong progress on software engineering, yet current systems suffer from a context coupling problem: the standard code editing interface conflates code inspection, modification planning, and edit…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yikai Zhang , Jiaxin Pei , Kenan Li , Qirui Jin , Maoquan Wang , Jin Pan , Yu Kang , Shengyu Fu , Elsie Nallipogu , Junjie Hu , Yufan Huang , Zijian Jin

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly capable and widely adopted, benchmarks play a central role in assessing their practical utility. For example, SWE-Bench Verified has emerged as a critical benchmark for evaluating LLMs'…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shanchao Liang , Spandan Garg , Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam

Can large language model agents develop industry-level mobile applications? We introduce \textbf{SWE-Bench Mobile}, a benchmark for evaluating coding agents on realistic software engineering tasks derived from a production iOS codebase.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Muxin Tian , Zhe Wang , Blair Yang , Zhenwei Tang , Kunlun Zhu , Honghua Dong , Hanchen Li , Xinni Xie , Guangjing Wang , Jiaxuan You

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software engineering has revealed critical limitations in existing benchmarks, particularly the widely used SWE-bench dataset. Recent studies have uncovered severe data contamination…

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

Issue resolution, a complex Software Engineering (SWE) task integral to real-world development, has emerged as a compelling challenge for artificial intelligence. The establishment of benchmarks like SWE-bench revealed this task as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Caihua Li , Lianghong Guo , Yanlin Wang , Daya Guo , Wei Tao , Zhenyu Shan , Mingwei Liu , Jiachi Chen , Haoyu Song , Duyu Tang , Hongyu Zhang , Zibin Zheng

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong performance on self-contained programming tasks. However, they still struggle with repository-level software engineering (SWE), which demands (1) deep codebase navigation with effective context…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Kang He , Kaushik Roy