Tests as Prompt

A Test-Driven-Development Benchmark for LLM Code Generation

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Yi Cui

Verlag:

Eliva Press

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35488417

EAN: 9789999331135

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Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Di, 01.09.2026

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Beschreibung

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 on natural language prompts, our benchmark emphasizes the ability of LLMs to interpret and implement functionality directly from test cases, reflecting real-world software development practices. Comprising 1000 diverse challenges across 20 application domains, the benchmark evaluates LLMs on their ability to generate compact, functional code under the constraints of context length and multi-feature complexity. Our findings high light instruction following and in-context learning as critical capabilities for TDD success, surpassing the importance of general coding proficiency or pretraining knowledge. Through comprehensive evaluation of 19 frontier models, we reveal performance bottlenecks, such as instruction loss in long prompts, and provide a detailed error analysis spanning multiple root causes. This work underscores the practical value of TDD-specific benchmarks and lays the foundation for advancing LLM capabilities in rigorous, application-driven coding scenarios.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Yi Cui

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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