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Performance is a critical quality attribute in software development, yet the impact of method-level code changes on performance evolution remains poorly understood. While developers often make intuitive assumptions about which types of…

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The evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous agents has expanded the scope of AI coding from localized code generation to complex, repository-level, and execution-driven problem solving. However, current benchmarks…

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Recent coding agents can generate complete codebases from simple prompts, yet existing evaluations focus on issue-level bug fixing and lag behind end-to-end development. We introduce ProjDevBench, an end-to-end benchmark that provides…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Pengrui Lu , Shiqi Zhang , Yunzhong Hou , Lyumanshan Ye , Chaoyi Huang , Zixi Chen , Ji Zeng , Hantao Jiang , Pengfei Liu , Yiwei Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

As agent capabilities advance, existing benchmarks, such as $\tau^2$-Bench, are becoming increasingly saturated. Yet constructing new benchmark tasks remains complex, costly, and labor-intensive. Moreover, the standard approach, in which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Tomer Keren , Nitay Calderon , Asaf Yehudai , Yotam Perlitz , Michal Shmueli-Scheuer , Roi Reichert

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant strides in front-end code generation. However, existing benchmarks exhibit several critical limitations: many tasks are overly simplistic, test cases often lack rigor, and end-to-end…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Hongda Zhu , Yiwen Zhang , Bing Zhao , Jingzhe Ding , Siyao Liu , Tong Liu , Dandan Wang , Yanan Liu , Zhaojian Li

Existing REST API testing tools are typically evaluated using code coverage and crash-based fault metrics. However, recent LLM-based approaches increasingly generate tests from NL requirements to validate functional behaviour, making…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Leon Kogler , Stefan Hangler , Maximilian Ehrhart , Benedikt Dornauer , Roland Wuersching , Peter Schrammel

The evaluation of code-generating Large Language Models (LLMs) is fundamentally constrained by two intertwined challenges: a reliance on static, easily contaminated problem sources and the use of superficial, low-rigor testing. This paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zhe Zhang , Runlin Liu , Aishan Liu , Xingyu Liu , Xiang Gao , Hailong Sun

Software development is iterative, yet agentic coding benchmarks hide design issues through their single-shot setup. Recent iterative benchmarks attempt to remedy this but heavily constrain an agent's design decision space, making it…

The application of large language models (LLMs) in the field of coding is evolving rapidly: from code assistants, to autonomous coding agents, and then to generating complete projects through natural language. Early LLM code benchmarks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Kai Xu , YiWei Mao , XinYi Guan , ZiLong Feng

Automated failure diagnosis requires correlating browser-visible symptoms with backend observability signals, yet existing benchmarks do not evaluate this cross-modal reasoning task. Constructing one is non-trivial: multi-modal failure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Haoming Meng

The emergence of "vibe coding" platforms, where users describe applications in natural language and AI agents autonomously generate full-stack software, has created a need for rigorous evaluation beyond code-level benchmarks. In order to…

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The evolution of AI coding agents has shifted the frontier from simple snippet completion to autonomous repository-level engineering. However, evaluating these agents remains ill-posed in general code repository generation, where the lack…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Xuefeng Li , Nir Ben-Israel , Yotam Raz , Belal Ahmed , Doron Serebro , Antoine Raux

Coding agents are increasingly deployed to autonomously maintain software, including to resolve user-reported issues: a bug report comes in and the agent creates a patch to address it. However, in any real-world deployment, they will…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Thibaud Gloaguen , Niels Mündler , Mark Müller , Veselin Raychev , Martin Vechev

Eliminating vulnerabilities from low-level code is vital for securing software. Static analysis is a promising approach for discovering vulnerabilities since it can provide developers early feedback on the code they write. But, it presents…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Bhargava Shastry , Fabian Yamaguchi , Konrad Rieck , Jean-Pierre Seifert

As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance in programming tasks, LLM-driven coding systems have evolved from one-shot code generation into complex systems capable of iterative improvement during inference. However, existing code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Wentao Zhang , Jianfeng Wang , Liheng Liang , Yilei Zhao , HaiBin Wen , Zhe Zhao

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional coding capability. However, as another critical component of programming proficiency, the debugging capability of LLMs remains relatively unexplored. Previous evaluations of LLMs'…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Runchu Tian , Yining Ye , Yujia Qin , Xin Cong , Yankai Lin , Yinxu Pan , Yesai Wu , Haotian Hui , Weichuan Liu , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and agent system designs have empowered agents with unprecedented levels of capability. However, existing agent benchmarks are showing a trend of rapid ceiling-hitting by newly developed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Dadi Guo , Tianyi Zhou , Dongrui Liu , Chen Qian , Qihan Ren , Shuai Shao , Zhiyuan Fan , Yi R. Fung , Kun Wang , Linfeng Zhang , Jing Shao

Modern programming follows the continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) approach rather than the traditional waterfall model. Even the development of modern programming languages uses the CI/CD approach to swiftly provide…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Jihyeok Park , Seungmin An , Dongjun Youn , Gyeongwon Kim , Sukyoung Ryu

As long-horizon coding agents produce more code than any developer can review, oversight collapses onto a single surface: the automated test suite. Reward hacking naturally arises in this setup, as the agent optimizes for passing tests…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Bingchen Zhao , Dhruv Srikanth , Yuxiang Wu , Zhengyao Jiang

Code generation benchmarks such as HumanEval are widely adopted to evaluate LLMs' capabilities. However, after consolidating the latest 24 benchmarks, we noticed three significant imbalances. First, imbalanced programming language. 95.8% of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Jialun Cao , Zhiyong Chen , Jiarong Wu , Shing-chi Cheung , Chang Xu