arxivcs.SEcs.AI2026-07-09
SCATE: Learning to Supervise Coding Agents for Cost-Effective Test Generation
Sijia Gu, Noor Nashid, Ali Mesbah
While autonomous coding agents have significantly advanced automated test generation, they remain fundamentally limited by lazy generation, a phenomenon where agents prematurely terminate tasks and systematically avoid complex programmatic logic, resulting in inadequate code cove…