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OmniCode: A Benchmark for Evaluating Software Development Agents (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: OmniCode is 1,794 tasks in Python, Java, and C++ covering bug fixing, test writing, and code review and style fixes, hand-checked and fresh, so no answers leak. Tested agents handle Python bug fixes but struggle on the rest, getting 25% on C++ test generation.

Abstract · OmniCode: A Benchmark for Evaluating Software Engineering Agents

LLM-powered coding agents are redefining how real-world software is developed. To drive the research towards better coding agents, we require challenging benchmarks that can rigorously evaluate the ability of such agents to perform various software engineering tasks. However, popular coding benchmarks such as HumanEval and SWE-Bench focus on narrowly scoped tasks such as competition programming and patch generation. In reality, software engineers have to handle a broader set of tasks for real-world software development. To address this gap, we propose OmniCode, a novel software engineering benchmark that contains a broader and more diverse set of task categories beyond code or patch generation. Overall, OmniCode contains 1794 tasks spanning three programming languages - Python, Java, and C++ - and four key categories: bug fixing, test generation, code review fixing, and style fixing. In contrast to prior software engineering benchmarks, the tasks in OmniCode are (1) manually validated to eliminate ill-defined problems, and (2) synthetically crafted or recently curated to avoid data leakage issues, presenting a new framework for synthetically generating diverse software tasks from limited real-world data. We evaluate OmniCode with popular agent frameworks such as SWE-Agent and show that while they may perform well on bug fixing for Python, they fall short on tasks such as Test Generation and in languages such as C++ and Java. For instance, SWE-Agent achieves a maximum of 25.0% with DeepSeek-V3.1 on C++ Test Generation. OmniCode aims to serve as a robust benchmark and spur the development of agents that can perform well across different aspects of software development. Code and data are available at https://github.com/seal-research/OmniCode.

Atharv Sonwane, Eng-Shen Tu, Wei-Chung Lu, Claas Beger, Carter Larsen, Debjit Dhar, Simon Alford, Rachel Chen, Ronit Pattanayak, Tuan Anh Dang, Guohao Chen, Gloria Geng, et al.
arXiv:2602.02262 · cs.SE, cs.AI, cs.CL · submitted Feb 2, 2026 · updated May 18, 2026
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