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Reliable and Developer-Aligned Evaluation of Agents for Software Engineering

Researchers propose a new evaluation methodology for LLM-powered software engineering agents, focusing on contamination-awareness, in-the-wild behavior assessment, and trajectory-aware benchmarks to better reflect real-world development practices.

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arXiv:2607.06713v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are rapidly moving towards closing the development cycle, transitioning from simple assistive companions to autonomous contributors deeply embedded into collaborative development environments. Despite their accelerated adoption, existing evaluation techniques are limited due to their fragmented nature and distorted projection of true model capabilities, often obtained from hypothetical syntactic scenarios. This research aims to bridge this gap by providing a comprehensive evaluation methodology for LLM-powered agents that is grounded in real-world software development practice. Our evaluation approach focuses on contamination-awareness, in-the-wild agentic behavior assessment, and trajectory-aware benchmarks and metrics capturing realistic coding contexts, human-aligned behavior, and model failure modes.

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