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Researchers introduce a roundtrip benchmark to evaluate natural-language documentation for coding agents by testing if regenerated code passes original tests. They find that completeness, rather than length, determines documentation fidelity and use this benchmark to optimize descriptions.
Researchers introduce a roundtrip benchmark to evaluate natural-language documentation for coding agents by testing if regenerated code passes original tests. They find that completeness, rather than length, determines documentation fidelity and use this benchmark to optimize descriptions.
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We investigate whether natural-language documentation helps coding agents resolve software issues, and we build the tools to construct and evaluate it. We introduce a roundtrip benchmark that scores code descriptions by whether code regenerated from them passes the original tests, and show that completeness, not...
Improving documentation quality can enhance coding agents' ability to resolve software issues effectively. This work provides tools and metrics to better construct and evaluate documentation, potentially advancing AI coding assistance.
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