SCATE framework automates supervision of coding agents to overcome lazy generation in test generation
Researchers propose SCATE, a framework for adaptive, automated supervision of coding agents, replacing human-in-the-loop oversight to address lazy generation—where agents prematurely terminate tasks and avoid complex logic, leading to inadequate code coverage. This aims to remove the bottleneck of human intuition and restore efficiency gains in automated test generation.
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