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TestPrism: Rethinking Test Evaluation Beyond a Single Reference

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Briefings

This briefing presents TestPrism, an evaluation framework that uses 300 tasks and 3000 candidate implementations to assess coding agent performance. It demonstrates that single-reference evaluation significantly overstates test quality by failing to account for alternative valid solutions. The study introduces TestHelix, a method combining heterogeneous synthesis and peer cross validation to improve success rates from 28.00% to 9.00%.

Key points

• TestPrism evaluates coding agents using 300 tasks from 17 sources with 3000 candidate implementations split evenly between valid and invalid solutions.
• The Joint Success Function metric requires tests to fail on initial states, accept all valid candidates, and reject all invalid ones, achieving only 28.00% success across fourteen configurations.

Context

Large language model coding agents have advanced test generation across diverse programming tasks. Existing evaluation practices often rely on a single reference solution, which can overstate test quality by ignoring alternative valid implementations.

Limitations

Evidence covers 14 baseline configurations and two models. Results are based on a preprint with no peer review. Specific failure modes like unsupported assertions and faulty test construction are identified but not fully quantified.

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