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SWE-Gate: Passing Functional Tests Is Not Enough for Software Engineering Agents
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers introduced SWE-Gate, a benchmark showing AI coding agents pass functional tests but fail real-world code review constraints 34 percent of the time.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers evaluating or building AI agents for repository-level code repair and patch generation tasks in production environments.
- Watch out
- The benchmark covers 303 Python instances across 75 repositories; results may not generalize to other languages, domains, or different types of review constraints.
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