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Interactive agent benchmarks face a tension between scalable construction and realistic workflow evaluation. Hand-authored tasks are expensive to extend and revise, while static prompt evaluation misses failures that only appear when agents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yuxiang Lai , Peng Xia , Haonian Ji , Kaiwen Xiong , Kaide Zeng , Jiaqi Liu , Fang Wu , Jike Zhong , Zeyu Zheng , Cihang Xie , Huaxiu Yao

Test case maintainability is an important concern, especially in open source and distributed development environments where projects typically have high contributor turnover with varying backgrounds and experience, and where code ownership…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Danielle Gonzalez , Joanna C. S. Santos , Andrew Popovich , Mehdi Mirakhorli , Mei Nagappan

As the complexity of System-on-Chip (SoC) designs grows, the shift-left paradigm necessitates the rapid development of high-fidelity reference models (typically written in SystemC) for early architecture exploration and verification. While…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yifan Zhang , Jianmin Ye , Jiahao Yang , Xi Wang

Multi-agent systems achieve state-of-the-art outcomes through peer collaboration. However, when an agent in the pipeline silently drops a constraint, the system's final output may look correct even though the reasoning chain was quietly…

Programming assistants powered by large language models have improved dramatically, yet existing benchmarks still evaluate them in narrow code-generation settings. Recent efforts such as InfiBench and StackEval rely on Stack Overflow…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Myeongsoo Kim , Shweta Garg , Baishakhi Ray , Varun Kumar , Anoop Deoras

Existing code benchmarks measure whether an agent can produce any test that reproduces a known bug, or whether it can produce a patch that fixes a described issue. Neither isolates the distinct skill of property-based testing: deriving a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Lucas Jing , Xinqi Wang , Liao Zhang , Simon S. Du

Evaluating software engineering capabilities has become a core component of modern large language models (LLMs); however, the key bottleneck hindering further scaling lies not in the scarcity of high-quality solutions, but in the lack of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yuxuan Sun , Yuze Zhao , Yufeng Wang , Yao Du , Zhiyuan Ma , Jinbo Wang , Mengdi Zhang , Kai Zhang , Zhenya Huang

Agent benchmarks have become the de facto measure of frontier AI competence, guiding model selection, investment, and deployment. However, reward hacking, where agents maximize a score without performing the intended task, emerges…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Hao Wang , Hanchen Li , Qiuyang Mang , Alvin Cheung , Koushik Sen , Dawn Song

Agents based on Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise for performing sophisticated software engineering tasks autonomously. In addition, there has been progress towards developing agents that can perform parts of the research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Nicholas Edwards , Yukyung Lee , Yujun Audrey Mao , Yulu Qin , Sebastian Schuster , Najoung Kim

Inference-time steering is widely regarded as a lightweight and parameter-free mechanism for controlling large language model (LLM) behavior, and prior work has often suggested that simple activation-level interventions can reliably induce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zikang Ding , Qiying Hu , Yi Zhang , Hongji Li , Junchi Yao , Hongbo Liu , Lijie Hu

Ensuring the quality of software systems through testing is essential, yet maintaining test cases poses significant challenges and costs. The need for frequent updates to align with the evolving system under test often entails high…

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The emergence of long-context language models with context windows extending to millions of tokens has created new opportunities for sophisticated code understanding and software development evaluation. We propose LoCoBench, a comprehensive…

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

Most automated software testing tasks can benefit from the abstract representation of test cases. Traditionally, this is done by encoding test cases based on their code coverage. Specification-level criteria can replace code coverage to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Emad Jabbar , Soheila Zangeneh , Hadi Hemmati , Robert Feldt

AI coding agents demonstrate strong performance on general-purpose software benchmarks. However, their ability to handle 5G network engineering tasks remains unexplored. We propose SWE-Bench~5G, the first benchmark designed to investigate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Jiao Chen , Jianhua Tang , Xiaotong Yang , Zuohong Lv

Recent work pairs LLMs with evolutionary search to iteratively generate, modify, and select code using task-specific feedback. These systems have produced strong results in mathematical discovery and algorithm design, yet a fundamental…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Nico Pelleriti , Sree Harsha Nelaturu , Zhanke Zhou , Zongze Li , Max Zimmer , Bo Han , Sebastian Pokutta

Automated issue solving seeks to autonomously identify and repair defective code snippets across an entire codebase. SWE-Bench has emerged as the most widely adopted benchmark for evaluating progress in this area. While LLM-based agentic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Simiao Liu , Fang Liu , Liehao Li , Xin Tan , Yinghao Zhu , Xiaoli Lian , Li Zhang

AI coding assistants increasingly generate code alongside tests. How developers structure test code, whether inline with the implementation or in separate blocks, has traditionally been a matter of testing philosophy. We investigate whether…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Éric Jacopin

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become pivotal tools for automating code generation in software development. However, these models face significant challenges in producing version-aware code for rapidly evolving languages like Rust, where…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Linxi Liang , Jing Gong , Mingwei Liu , Chong Wang , Guangsheng Ou , Yanlin Wang , Xin Peng , Zibin Zheng

Tool-using agents are increasingly expected to operate across realistic professional workflows, where they must interpret multimodal inputs, coordinate external tools, inspect intermediate artifacts, and revise their actions before…

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