Cross-executing tests and patches improves software testing agents

TEX lets parallel agents refine their work using a matrix of execution outcomes rather than exchanging lengthy reasoning traces.

Big Tech
Akash Gokul · Srijan Bansal · Yingbo Zhou · Semih Yavuz

Recursive · Salesforce Research · NVIDIA

Research Digest··3 min read
Gokul and colleagues introduce TEX, a test-time scaling framework in which multiple agents independently generate tests and code patches, then run every test against every patch.

TEX runs K software agents in parallel over multiple refinement rounds.

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