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Developing full-stack web applications is complex and time-intensive, demanding proficiency across diverse technologies and frameworks. Although recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) enable automated webpage generation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yuxuan Wan , Tingshuo Liang , Jiakai Xu , Jingyu Xiao , Yintong Huo , Michael R. Lyu

Test-driven development (TDD) has been adopted to improve Large Language Model (LLM)-based code generation by using tests as executable specifications. However, existing TDD-style code generation studies are largely limited to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yunhao Liang , Ruixuan Ying , Shiwen Ni , Zhe Cui

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a widely adopted software engineering practice that requires developers to create and execute tests alongside code implementation, ensuring that software behavior is continuously validated and refined. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yiran Hu , Nan Jiang , Shanchao Liang , Yi Wu , Lin Tan

Recent Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant capabilities in generating code snippets directly from problem statements. This increasingly automated process mirrors traditional human-led software development, where code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Noble Saji Mathews , Meiyappan Nagappan

Test Driven Development (TDD) is one of the major practices of Extreme Programming for which incremental testing and refactoring trigger the code development. TDD has limited adoption in the industry, as it requires more code to be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Moritz Mock , Jorge Melegati , Barbara Russo

Large language models (LLMs) accelerate software development but often exhibit instability, non-determinism, and weak adherence to development discipline in unconstrained workflows. While test-driven development (TDD) provides a structured…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Tarlan Hasanli , Shahbaz Siddeeq , Bishwash Khanal , Pyry Kotilainen , Tommi Mikkonen , Pekka Abrahamsson

Test-driven development (TDD) is the practice of writing tests first and coding later, and the proponents of TDD expound its numerous benefits. For instance, given an issue on a source code repository, tests can clarify the desired behavior…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Toufique Ahmed , Martin Hirzel , Rangeet Pan , Avraham Shinnar , Saurabh Sinha

Context: Test-driven development (TDD) is a widely employed software development practice that involves developing test cases based on requirements prior to writing the code. Although various methods for automated test case generation have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Saranya Alagarsamy , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Wannita Takerngsaksiri , Chetan Arora , Aldeida Aleti

Automatic code generation has recently attracted large attention and is becoming more significant to the software development process. Solutions based on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are being used to increase human and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Leon Chemnitz , David Reichenbach , Hani Aldebes , Mariam Naveed , Krishna Narasimhan , Mira Mezini

AI coding agents can resolve real-world software issues, yet they frequently introduce regressions -- breaking tests that previously passed. Current benchmarks focus almost exclusively on resolution rate, leaving regression behavior…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Pepe Alonso , Sergio Yovine , Victor A. Braberman

Recent advances in large language model agents offer the promise of automating end-to-end software development from natural language requirements. However, existing approaches largely adopt linear, waterfall-style pipelines, which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Junwei Liu , Chen Xu , Chong Wang , Tong Bai , Weitong Chen , Kaseng Wong , Yiling Lou , Xin Peng

Recent advances in coding agents have shown remarkable progress in software issue resolution. In practice, real-world issues are typically bug fixes or feature requests in which human developers naturally incorporate refactoring as part of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhao Tian , Zifan Zhang , Tao Xiao , Dong Wang , Masanari Kondo , Junjie Chen , Yasutaka Kamei

We introduce WebApp1K, a novel benchmark for evaluating large language models (LLMs) in test-driven development (TDD) tasks, where test cases serve as both prompt and verification for code generation. Unlike traditional approaches relying…

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Context: Test-driven development (TDD) is an agile software development approach that has been widely claimed to improve software quality. However, the extent to which TDD improves quality appears to be largely dependent upon the…

Software malleability allows applications to be easily changed, configured, and adapted even after deployment. While prior work has explored configurable systems, adaptive recommender systems, and malleable GUIs, these approaches are often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yuying Wang , Kaifeng Huang , Hao Deng , Zhiyuan Sun , Jinxuan Zhou , Shengjie Zhao

Background: Test-driven development (TDD) is a technique that repeats short coding cycles interleaved with testing. The developer first writes a unit test for the desired functionality, followed by the necessary production code, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Davide Fucci , Hakan Erdogmus , Burak Turhan , Markku Oivo , Natalia Juristo

Automated code generation has long been considered the holy grail of software engineering. The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has catalyzed a revolutionary breakthrough in this area. However, existing methods that only rely on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xu Lu , Weisong Sun , Yiran Zhang , Ming Hu , Cong Tian , Zhi Jin , Yang Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have improved programming efficiency, but their performance degrades significantly as requirements scale; when faced with multi-modal documents containing hundreds of scenarios, LLMs often produce incorrect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Weiyu Kong , Yun Lin , Xiwen Teoh , Duc-Minh Nguyen , Ruofei Ren , Jiaxin Chang , Haoxu Hu , Haoyu Chen

Software systems should be explainable, that is, they should help us to answer questions while exploring, developing or using them. Textual documentation is a very weak form of explanation, since it is not causally connected to the code, so…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Oscar Nierstrasz , Andrei Chiş , Tudor Gîrba

We present Test-Driven AI Agent Definition (TDAD), a methodology that treats agent prompts as compiled artifacts: engineers provide behavioral specifications, a coding agent converts them into executable tests, and a second coding agent…

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