English
Related papers

Related papers: From Runnable to Shippable: Multi-Agent Test-Drive…

200 papers

LLM-based agents have demonstrated great potential in generating and managing code within complex codebases. In this paper, we introduce WebGen-Bench, a novel benchmark designed to measure an LLM-based agent's ability to create multi-file…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zimu Lu , Yunqiao Yang , Houxing Ren , Haotian Hou , Han Xiao , Ke Wang , Weikang Shi , Aojun Zhou , Mingjie Zhan , Hongsheng Li

Automated program synthesis lowers the cost of producing implementations but introduces a harder governance problem: determining which generated artifacts are admissible. Natural-language specifications are ambiguous, and example-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jun He , Deying Yu

Despite rapid progress on coding agents, progress on their multimodal counterparts has lagged behind. A key challenge is the scarcity of evaluation testbeds that combine the complexity of software development with the need for deep…

Software development is a complex task that necessitates cooperation among multiple members with diverse skills. Numerous studies used deep learning to improve specific phases in a waterfall model, such as design, coding, and testing.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Chen Qian , Wei Liu , Hongzhang Liu , Nuo Chen , Yufan Dang , Jiahao Li , Cheng Yang , Weize Chen , Yusheng Su , Xin Cong , Juyuan Xu , Dahai Li , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

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

Coding agents represent a new paradigm in automated software engineering, combining the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) with tool-augmented interaction loops. However, coding agents still have severe limitations.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Tural Mehtiyev , Wesley Assunção

Software testing has progressed toward intelligent automation, yet current AI-based test generators still suffer from static, single-shot outputs that frequently produce invalid, redundant, or non-executable tests due to the lack of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Saba Naqvi , Mohammad Baqar , Nawaz Ali Mohammad

Coding agents are increasingly used as application builders, yet many evaluations still focus on source code, repository-level tests, or intermediate traces rather than the delivered application. We introduce WebGameBench, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Wenyu Zhang , Guoliang You , Tianlun , Haotian Zhao , Tianshu Zhu , Haoran Wang , Xiaoxuan Tang , Mingyang Dai , Jingnan Gu , Daxiang Dong , Jianmin Wu

Test-driven Development (TDD) is an incremental approach to software development. Despite it is claimed to improve both quality of software and developers' productivity, the research on the claimed effects of TDD has so far shown…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Simone Romano , Giuseppe Scanniello , Maria Teresa Baldassarre , Davide Fucci , Danilo Caivano

In the last few years, Model Driven Development (MDD), Component-based Software Development (CBSD), and context-oriented software have become interesting alternatives for the design and construction of self-adaptive software systems. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Basel Magableh

The advancement of natural language processing (NLP) has been significantly boosted by the development of transformer-based large language models (LLMs). These models have revolutionized NLP tasks, particularly in code generation, aiding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Dong Huang , Jie M. Zhang , Michael Luck , Qingwen Bu , Yuhao Qing , Heming Cui

Recent advances in code generation models have unlocked unprecedented opportunities for automating feature engineering, yet their adoption in real-world ML teams remains constrained by critical challenges: (i) the scarcity of datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Himanshu Thakur , Anusha Kamath , Anurag Muthyala , Dhwani Sanmukhani , Smruthi Mukund , Jay Katukuri

Developing distributed systems presents significant challenges, primarily due to the complexity introduced by non-deterministic concurrency and faults. To address these, we propose a specification-driven development framework. Our method…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Hua Guo , Yunhong Ji , Xuan Zhou

Modern software applications demand efficient and reliable testing methodologies to ensure robust user interface functionality. This paper introduces an autonomous reinforcement learning (RL) agent integrated within a Behavior-Driven…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ali Hassaan Mughal

Designing a web-application from a specification involves a series of well-planned and well executed steps leading to the final product. This often involves critical changes in design while testing the application, which itself is slow and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Joy Dutta , Paul Fodor

Large Language Models (LLMs) and code agents in software development are rapidly evolving from generating isolated code snippets to producing full-fledged software applications with graphical interfaces, interactive logic, and dynamic…

Web applications are critical to modern software ecosystems, yet ensuring their reliability remains challenging due to the complexity and dynamic nature of web interfaces. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown promise…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Nguyen-Khang Le , Quan Minh Bui , Minh Ngoc Nguyen , Hiep Nguyen , Trung Vo , Son T. Luu , Shoshin Nomura , Minh Le Nguyen

The agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) paradigm has been used to analyze, reproduce, and predict phenomena related to many application areas. Although there are many agent-based platforms that support simulation development, they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Fernando Santos , Ingrid Nunes , Ana L. C. Bazzan

It is widely documented that the absence of a structured approach to spreadsheet engineering is a key factor in the high level of spreadsheet errors. In this paper we propose and investigate the application of Test-Driven Development to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Alan Rust , Brian Bishop , Kevin McDaid

Code generation models based on large language models (LLMs) have gained wide adoption, but challenges remain in ensuring safety, accuracy, and controllability, especially for complex tasks. Existing methods often lack dynamic integration…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Aofan Liu , Haoxuan Li , Bin Wang , Ao Yang , Hui Li