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Why code LLMs fail on private repositories, and what Centific is doing about it

Understand why code generation models break down in private enterprise repositories, and how structured data curation, environment-aware execution, and human validation improve real-world performance.

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Code generation models often appear more capable than they actually are because they are evaluated on artificial tasks that ignore the realities of enterprise software development.

When success is measured on isolated snippets instead of private repositories, multi-file dependencies, and organizational constraints, models can look production-ready while breaking down in real environments. This gap helps explain why benchmark-leading systems frequently stall when teams attempt to use them inside real codebases.

Direct work with private enterprise repositories makes the source of that gap clear. Public benchmarks and open-source training data omit many of the conditions that dominate production software: incomplete or non-runnable tests, deeply nested dependencies, inconsistent environments, legacy design patterns, and organizational quality standards. As a result, both evaluation signals and training pipelines optimize for scenarios that rarely exist inside companies.

Centific’s response has been to design workflows that operate on private repositories as they actually are, not as benchmarks assume them to be. The approach described in this article combines disciplined repository curation, environment-aware execution, human-in-the-loop validation, and governance controls to support training and evaluation against real enterprise code. In the following article, Centific documents the specific failure modes we’ve observed in private repositories and the concrete techniques used to address them in practice.

Where public benchmarks stop reflecting reality

For the past several years, the field of AI code generation has seen explosive growth thanks to ever-larger language models and vast open-source datasets. Public benchmarks like HumanEval, MBPP, and CodeContests have become the de facto standard for evaluating LLM coding ability.

But these benchmarks, and the public repositories they are mined from, have critical limitations:

They are dominated by standalone functions with few dependencies and toy problems unrepresentative of enterprise software.
Test suites are readily available or easily synthesized, allowing “pass@k” success rates to be a proxy for real-world value.
Dataset diversity is low: models see the same well-maintained, highly-starred codebases that are massively overrepresented in leaderboards.

As a result, many leading models now approach the performance ceiling on public benchmarks. On SWE-Bench Pro (public), top LLM code agents achieve over 70% automated accuracy (Scale AI, 2025).

But does this success transfer to real business code? Absolutely not.

Recent research across academia and industry shows that when these models are asked to generate, fix, or simply understand code inside private production repositories, their performance collapses. In domain-shifted, enterprise settings:

Success rates often plummet to less than 10% on real repository tasks.
Functions with significant cross-module interactions fail to be generated correctly, or at all.
Most tasks in multi-service/multi-language monorepos are simply out of reach for public-data-tuned models.

Why? Because public training and evaluation fails to capture the fractal complexity and dependency-riddled fabric of actual software systems.

Our mission: To build private-repo datasets and curation tools that meet this challenge head-on—acknowledging, diagnosing, and overcoming the obstacles that break public-data pipelines on the hard, messy reality of private code.

The first step is diagnosing where these models fail inside private repositories. Across private enterprise repositories, the same technical and structural failures surface time and again when code LLMs are applied outside benchmark conditions.

Evidence-backed critique: core challenges in private repo curation

The following sections outline the most common failure modes observed when code LLMs are applied to private enterprise repositories. These challenges emerge repeatedly in real-world codebases and help explain why performance drops so sharply outside of benchmark settings.

1. Test scarcity in real repositories

It's not just that most private code is missing tests. Existing tests are rarely simple, self-contained, or reliably executable. Many cover entire workflows requiring multiple internal systems, cloud accounts, or seed datasets. Large swaths of business code are “integration only” with no meaningful, local test harness. Virtually every LLM code benchmark relies on easily runnable, deterministic tests—whereas real code depends on Jenkins/CI/CD, custom runners, or ad-hoc shell scripts, often needing access to staging databases or payment systems never exposed outside the company.

Not only do over 99% of real functions lack tests (DevEval), but in enterprise code even “tests” are frequently end-to-end, integration, or dependent on non-reproducible infra.
Even where tests exist, they often require proprietary setups (databases, third-party APIs, secret configs), meaning “just run pytest” fails in more than half of all repo environments.
Example: A function like allocate_resource() in an internal FinTech codebase might pass if two microservices and an SSO provider are up—if not, every test fails or hangs.

As a result, test-based evaluation, so central to public benchmarks, breaks down in private repositories, leaving models without a reliable signal for correctness or behavior in real enterprise environments.

2. Dependency discovery challenges

Enterprise code is rife with indirect, implicit, or dynamically-resolved dependencies. Code might use imports embedded in factory functions, modules loaded by name at runtime, or inject dependencies via decorators, plugin registries, or dependency injection frameworks (e.g., @inject(SomeService)). Aliasing is everywhere (import numpy as np), and code routinely references constants, types, or error classes defined four modules away. Pure AST or regex extraction routinely misses these—leaving LLM contexts underspecified and model completions error-prone.

Pattern Diversity: Functions may reference code via:
- Direct and chained calls: foo(), a.b.c()
- Class instantiation: obj = Foo(x)
- Aliased and relative imports: import mod as m; from .lib import core
- Decorators and type annotations: @cache, def f(x: Type) -> Result
Dependencies are expressed not only in imports but in type annotations, decorators, context managers, exception signatures, and late binding—all invisible to simple static analysis.
Developers habitually use aliasing, dynamic imports (__import__), or runtime patching, which AST or regex approaches regularly miss.
Research on advanced analyzers like PyCG and DynaPyt shows that even the best tools miss 20-40% of real dependencies in large Python repos.
Example: @inject_logger def foo(...): silently injects a logger dependency via framework magic—public benchmarks never contain such “invisible” requirements.

When these dependencies are missed, models are forced to reason with incomplete context, leading to code that appears plausible but fails once integrated into the full system.

3. Monorepos and multi-environment complexity

Unlike public datasets, where every repo is a single-purpose utility, real companies are moving toward giant monorepos. These may host a billing system, a search engine, and ML pipelines—each with unique dependencies, config files, and test setups. It isn’t sufficient to install a single requirements.txt; many modules won’t function unless the full dependency tree is resolved, including language-version pinning (Python 3.7 vs 3.10), shared Docker-compose setups, or company-internal package registries.

Real monorepos require per-module virtualenvs, container orchestration, or bespoke build scripts to execute even a single test suite.
Teams like Google and Facebook document tens of thousands of internal packages and tightly managed build/bazel/test flows that break naive scripts.
Example: Running the full test suite for a single feature might demand spinning up four Docker containers, injecting secrets, and three system dependencies—none present in open-source datasets.

In monorepo environments like these, code cannot be evaluated or generated in isolation, since correctness depends on navigating the surrounding infrastructure, dependencies, and execution context.

4. Code quality problems

Public code is often written for convenience, demos, or academic purposes, not for maintainability. But enterprise code must regularly pass rigorous reviews: high code coverage, maintainability index thresholds (e.g., MI > 70), and detailed linting. Many code LLMs, when trained on public code, “learn” to tolerate or even generate deeply nested, poorly-commented, high-complexity functions—something instantly flagged or refused in regulated or safety-critical environments.

QScored has shown that 30–50% of seemingly “clean” repository code fails cyclomatic complexity, maintainability, and smell standards.
Legacy “god objects,” “brain method” anti-patterns, and lack of documentation are endemic but must be filtered for trustworthy training data.
Example: An LLM fine-tuned on public data will gleefully generate 500-line classes with zero docstrings and nested functions—unacceptable in production.

When these quality standards are not reflected in training data, models internalize patterns that conflict with enterprise review expectations, even when the generated code appears functionally correct.

5. Code duplication and benchmark inflation

Public datasets suffer from rampant code duplication. Functions and even full modules are cloned between projects, either verbatim or with only cosmetic rewrites. If not systematically deduplicated, models score in the 90%+ on “novel” benchmark tasks only because they saw near-identical code in training—creating an illusion of generalization where none exists. In practice, deduplication using token-Jaccard or normalized hash matching is mandatory, and often cuts usable, unique function counts by 25–40%.

Peer-reviewed findings suggest up to 40% duplication in datasets like CodeSearchNet and The Stack.
This not only inflates benchmark accuracy (seeing the “same” function in train and test), but makes learned patterns misleading for independent real-world code.
Example: A sorting algorithm, copied 50x with minor tweaks, registers as “unique” but will bias any model toward simplistic, overfit solutions.

In this context, high benchmark scores say more about dataset construction than model capability, obscuring how little truly new code the model has learned to handle.

6. PR-based benchmark scarcity

PR-based benchmarks such as SETUPAGENT or SWE-Bench depend on finding real-world commits that fix bugs (fail→pass). But in most private repos, fail→pass PRs are a tiny minority. Most PRs are refactors, cleanups, dependency bumps, or “successive approximation” PRs, and only a few ever land a fix that can be unambiguously mapped from red to green test state. The “benchmarkable” universe shrinks rapidly when you apply these constraints on real industry code.

On public data, about 22–29% of repos yield such PRs after heavy automation. In private enterprise datasets, it’s usually fewer than 2%—most PRs edit docs, tweak config, or are partial/incremental, so lack fail-to-pass observability.
Example: In 10,000 PRs at a major SaaS, less than 200 produced a new, reproducible “passing” state from a previously “failing” test, making broad coverage benchmarks nearly impossible without substantial human curation.

In enterprise settings, this makes PR-based benchmarks less a reflection of everyday development and more a narrow sampling of rare events, limiting their usefulness as a general measure of model capability.

The challenges discussed in this section explain why private repositories consistently expose weaknesses that never appear in public benchmark results. The next section steps back from individual failure modes to examine the underlying assumption itself: that models trained and evaluated on public code will naturally perform well when dropped into real enterprise environments.

Where public benchmarks fail: a contrast with reality

The theory of “train on public, work on private” sounds great until it hits the lived complexity of business critical code. Here are real-world examples showing why naïve, public-data pipelines break at nearly every scoring dimension:

1. Hidden dependencies and import anti-patterns

One of the earliest points of failure in private repositories is dependency resolution that happens outside explicit import statements.

Public repo example:

from mymodule import foo foo(data)

Private repo reality:

from .factories import make_db as mdb @contextmanager def connection(): db = mdb(get_env_config()) try: yield db finally: db.close()

The dependency chain here is: function → factory method → environment-dependent config → context manager. Static or import-only detection will miss most of it.
Decorators like @contextmanager or @inject_logger add even more hidden dependencies, usually invisible to public code extractors.

Patterns like these require models to reason across factories, runtime configuration, and lifecycle management rather than relying on surface-level imports, a capability rarely exercised in public benchmark settings.

2. Aliased imports, decorators, and type annotations

The following example illustrates how common Python abstractions compress meaning in ways that depend heavily on local context rather than explicit code structure:

import numpy as np from .mlcore import Preprocessor, predict @caching(timeout=60) def run_pipeline(data: np.ndarray, steps: list[Preprocessor]) -> np.ndarray: return predict(steps, data)

Dependency extractors must resolve the alias (np), decorator (@caching), and class references within a list of unknown objects—hard even for many LLMs.

Unless these layers are resolved correctly, models may misinterpret what a function actually does, even when the surface syntax appears straightforward.

3. Complex service-driven, multi-env functions

Private enterprise functions often act as orchestration layers, coordinating multiple services rather than performing isolated computation.

def process_payment(order, session: Session = Depends(get_session)): customer = CustomerService.load(order.customer_id) inventory = InventoryManager.check(order.sku) price = Pricing.calculate(order, customer) if PaymentGateway.charge(customer.card, price): Notification.send(customer.email, "Success!")

At least six tightly-coupled internal modules, each with its own test and runtime requirements, all likely invisible from a simple import scan.

In cases like this, understanding correctness depends on how services interact across environments, not on the behavior of any single function in isolation.

4. Ignored code smells and poor quality

Beyond correctness and dependency resolution, enterprise code is also shaped by enforcement mechanisms that rarely appear in public datasets.

Functions over 200 lines, with complex, nested logic and zero documentation, are common in legacy systems:

# public models never see this class FinancialEngine: def execute(self, ...): # 100+ lines, no docstring, cross-calls pass

Such code would never pass production review, but public-data LLMs often generate this style because their training sets lack real engineering enforcement.

As a result, models absorb stylistic and structural patterns that diverge sharply from the expectations applied to production code inside mature organizations.

5. Deduplication failures

It’s not uncommon to find ten nearly-identical normalize_data() functions in different modules of a monorepo—confusing LLMs that assume such duplication signals importance.

6. Broken evaluators

“Just run the tests” fails spectacularly for code that needs a database, cloud credentials, or live Kafka queue—typical for business logic. Public benchmarks don’t even attempt these scenarios:

“pytest” output: E sqlalchemy.exc.NoSuchModuleError: Can't load plugin: sqlalchemy.dialects:mycompanydb

In these situations, evaluation itself becomes unreliable, making benchmark-style scoring meaningless for the kinds of systems enterprises actually run.

7. PR/benchmarkability is the exception, not the rule

Of 10,000 private repo PRs:

<1% cleanly transition a failing test to passing (DevEval, SETUPAGENT, internal benchmarks).
Most PRs are version bumps, infra tweaks, or staged partial fixes with no test impact.

This leaves very little real signal to support PR-based evaluation at enterprise scale.

Why pipelines trained solely on public code fail

The issues surfaced across dependency resolution, evaluation reliability, data duplication, and test availability reveal a mismatch between how public-code pipelines are constructed and what enterprise code actually demands.

Insufficient context for LLM prompts/finetuning (missing dependency chain).
Spurious confidence in generated “solutions” that are undocumented, unsafe, or rely on missing infra.
Sky-high evaluation scores misleadingly driven by code clones or easy tests.
Broken test/patch/PR coverage making new benchmarks and data generation nearly impossible without extensive human work.

What emerges is not a collection of edge cases, but a consistent pattern showing that public-code pipelines optimize for the wrong signals when applied to private repositories.

Centific’s proposed solution: six pillars of private-repo curation

To overcome the formidable and deeply underappreciated challenges outlined above, a truly enterprise-grade private code curation pipeline must be built on the following core principles.

These pillars describe the private-repository curation workflow Centific has built and operates in practice. Each pillar corresponds to concrete tooling, governance controls, and human-in-the-loop processes used to curate enterprise codebases into usable training and evaluation assets under real-world constraints.

1. Stratified repo selection and governance

Don’t just “fetch tons of code” from anywhere. Use company policy, project granularity, and human-in-the-loop selection to ensure:

Diversity (prod, platform, infra, growth, ML, etc.), not just web-API utilities.
Legal and data-governance review—avoid contaminating LLMs with sensitive or non-license-compliant code.

This approach treats repository selection as a deliberate governance decision rather than a purely technical data-collection step.

2. Hybrid dependency and context extraction

To make private-repo data usable for training and evaluation, the pipeline has to extract dependencies and surrounding context in a way that matches how the code actually runs. The steps below outline a practical approach for doing that without relying on brittle, import-only scans.

Leverage multi-stage dependency analyzers:
- Static AST, type annotation, and symbol table passes.
- Cross-file, aliased, and decorator/magic marker awareness (RepoExec, DynaPyt, PyCG-inspired methods).
- Optional dynamic/contextual tracing in test environments for the hardest scenarios.
Generate context windows (small, medium, full) for each function/class—never rely on “local code only.”

When handled this way, context extraction becomes a repeatable engineering process rather than an ad hoc best effort, which is essential for building private-repo tasks that are both solvable and representative.

3. Quality gates (Q-scored metrics, linting, complexity)

Once dependencies and context are correctly captured, the next requirement is deciding what quality of code is even allowed into the pipeline. Enterprise LLMs cannot be trained or evaluated on code that would fail basic production review, so explicit quality gates must be enforced upstream.

Enforce rigorous quality thresholds:
- Cyclomatic complexity, maintainability index, Pylint/Halstead/Smell metrics—cut off bottom 30–40% of code.
- Require documentation and readable naming for all function/class inclusions.
- Ban “god objects,” spaghetti code, and unsafe patterns via automated and sample-based manual audits.

These gates narrow the dataset deliberately, favoring reliability and long-term maintainability over volume, and create a foundation where model outputs reflect real engineering expectations rather than public-code shortcuts.

4. Multi-stage deduplication

Even high-quality enterprise repositories contain large amounts of repeated code, copied utilities, and lightly modified templates. Before any data can be trusted for training or evaluation, duplication has to be treated as a first-class technical problem rather than a cleanup afterthought.

Run both exact (hash-based/DéjàVu) and near-duplicate (token-Jaccard/Allamanis) deduplication.
Retain the longest, best-annotated, and most “root-canonical” instance of each code pattern.
Remove utility/test-only and scaffold copies to avoid training bias.

This process reduces dataset size intentionally while increasing informational value, ensuring that apparent model improvements reflect genuine learning instead of memorization of recycled patterns.

5. End-to-end test discovery, generation, and repair

Because most enterprise code cannot be evaluated with a simple, runnable test harness, testing must be treated as an active reconstruction problem rather than a passive dependency. Reliable benchmarks and training data require deliberate effort to surface, create, and stabilize tests in environments where they were never designed to run in isolation.

Mine existing tests with hybrid static/dynamic heuristics.
Where missing:
- Use LLMs to generate context-aware tests, leveraging dependency trees.
- Repair tests with missing imports, mocks, and environment patches; automate as much as possible, with manual review for critical gaps.
Accept that many real-world surfaces are not directly testable; favor code with at least partial coverage.

The goal is not perfect coverage, but sufficient behavioral grounding to distinguish working code from plausible output, allowing evaluation and fine-tuning to reflect how software actually behaves under real constraints rather than idealized conditions.

6. Isolated execution per module with environment detection

Enterprise repositories rarely run as a single, uniform application. Different modules often assume distinct runtimes, dependency versions, and execution contexts, making “one environment fits all” evaluation impractical and misleading.

Detect all requirements.txt, setup.py, conda, and Docker/Compose files; map modules to their runtime requirements.
Spin up per-module/per-service venvs or containers, carefully mocking unavailable network/db/cloud services for as much reproducibility as is feasible.

Isolating execution in this way allows individual components to be exercised under conditions that resemble their real operating context, creating a foundation for evaluation that reflects how enterprise systems are developed, tested, and deployed.

Implementation details: building a private repo curation workflow

Moving from critique to execution requires more than isolated fixes. The following workflow outlines how private enterprise repositories can be systematically curated into reliable training and evaluation assets, while accounting for the structural issues described earlier. Each step addresses a specific failure mode observed in public-data pipelines and is designed to operate as part of an integrated, end-to-end system rather than a standalone tool.

1. Comprehensive file and repo discovery

Effective curation begins with visibility. Before dependencies can be resolved or quality assessed, the pipeline must establish a complete and accurate inventory of what code actually exists across repositories and business domains.

Systematically scan all directories in each repository, using language extension filters for Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, etc.
Exclude auto-generated, build, test, and dependency folders, as well as common noise file patterns.
Enforce project tagging and stratify source code by business, infra, and ML domains.

This step ensures that downstream analysis operates on a representative and intentional slice of enterprise code, rather than an arbitrary or convenience-driven subset.

2. Multi-layer dependency and context extraction

Once code is discovered, the next challenge is understanding it in context. Enterprise functions rarely stand alone, and meaningful evaluation depends on reconstructing the web of dependencies that shape behavior.

Parse each source for function and class definitions using AST and symbol table traversal to discover imported modules, cross-file dependencies, type hints, and decorator-based patterns.
Apply additional pattern matching for dynamic usages, injected dependencies, and runtime-imports (beyond what AST can see).
Construct overlapping “context windows” for each function or class:
- Small context: function/class plus local helpers/imports
- Medium context: direct and one-hop dependencies, docstrings
- Full context: all dependencies and related modules

By generating multiple context representations, the pipeline avoids the common failure of training or evaluating models on underspecified, artificially local views of enterprise code.

3. Enforcing quality gates

Not all code should be treated as equally trustworthy. Before inclusion in training or evaluation datasets, enterprise code must be filtered to reflect the standards expected in production environments.

Analyze every discovered function and class for code health:
- Compute maintainability, complexity, and code smell scores.
- Filter out items that do not meet strict thresholds (MI, complexity, naming, documentation).
- Prioritize code with clear hierarchy, structure, and well-formed docstrings.

These gates prevent low-quality or pathological patterns from distorting model behavior and help align datasets with real engineering expectations.

4. Multi-method deduplication

Duplication is a hidden but pervasive source of bias in code datasets. Without aggressive deduplication, models can appear to generalize while merely memorizing repeated patterns.

De-duplicate all discovered code using:
- Hash-based methods for exact duplicates.
- Token-based similarity checks for near-clones, including normalization and literal replacement.
Always keep the most comprehensive, well-documented variant when duplicates are found.

This step preserves diversity while ensuring that repeated scaffolds or cloned utilities do not dominate training or evaluation signals.

5. Automated and assisted test discovery/generation

Testing is central to evaluation, but enterprise repositories rarely offer clean, runnable test suites. This stage focuses on recovering as much executable signal as possible without assuming ideal conditions.

Use targeted search heuristics to find matching tests based on naming conventions, content, and cross-references.
Where tests are lacking, employ LLMs to generate new tests contextualized to each function’s full, real-world dependencies.
Automate patching of broken tests: fix imports, inject mocks, and fill environment variables as needed for testability.

Rather than discarding untestable code outright, this approach balances automation and judgment to expand coverage while maintaining realism.

6. Per-module execution and environment management

Enterprise code often spans incompatible runtimes, dependency versions, and deployment assumptions. Treating execution environments as first-class artifacts is essential for reliable evaluation.

Detect and isolate environment requirements for each module or service: requirements files, install scripts, docker configs, etc.
Build and manage virtual environments or containers for isolated test and coverage collection, applying parallel execution to improve throughput.
Log and triage all environment or execution failures for manual review.

This isolation enables components to be exercised under conditions that resemble their real operating context, rather than forcing them into a single, brittle runtime.

7. Evaluation with LLMs and human-in-the-loop

Even with extensive automation, some enterprise surfaces resist traditional testing. In these cases, evaluation must extend beyond pass/fail execution.

When standard unit testing is impossible (due to complex infra or missing data), fallback to LLM-based “code as judge” prompting.
Compose chain-of-thought, error-taxonomy, and ensemble scoring LLM prompts to evaluate both code and tests.
Route ambiguous results or risky surface areas for targeted human validation.

This hybrid approach preserves scale while ensuring that high-impact or uncertain cases receive expert scrutiny.

8. Transparency and monitoring

Curation pipelines degrade without feedback. Continuous visibility into pipeline behavior is necessary to maintain trust and improve over time.

Continuously monitor and log deduplication rates, environment setup bottlenecks, test/coverage stats, and dependency recall.
Provide regular dashboard reports for curation leaders and data stewards, highlighting weak spots for re-auditing and pipeline improvement.

Monitoring closes the loop, allowing organizations to treat private-repo curation as an evolving system rather than a one-time preprocessing step.

From benchmark performance to production readiness

Code generation models increasingly sit in the critical path of enterprise software delivery, influencing everything from developer productivity to system reliability and security posture. When models are trained and evaluated on data that does not resemble internal codebases, the result is predictable: fragile integrations, misleading confidence in generated code, and engineering teams forced to spend time validating, rewriting, or rolling back AI-assisted changes. The cost shows up not as failed demos, but as slowed delivery, increased review burden, and hesitation to use these systems in high-impact workflows.

The approach outlined in this article leads to tangible changes in how AI-assisted development operates inside enterprises. Private-repository curation, quality gates, environment-aware execution, and human-in-the-loop evaluation give teams a way to predict failure modes before code reaches production, rather than discovering them during reviews or incidents. That translates into fewer rollbacks, less manual validation work for senior engineers, and greater confidence in using code LLMs on systems that actually matter to the business.

Enterprises considering broader use of code LLMs should focus less on headline benchmark scores and more on whether their internal pipelines reflect real dependencies, execution environments, and review standards. Building that foundation makes it possible to move from experimental usage toward dependable deployment, where model behavior aligns with production expectations rather than abstract benchmarks.

How Centific helps

Centific helps organizations apply these principles in practice through our AI Data Foundry, which supports private-repository data curation, human-in-the-loop validation, and repository-aware evaluation under enterprise governance constraints. Rather than relying on public benchmarks or synthetic abstractions, Centific works directly with real codebases to build datasets and evaluation pipelines aligned with how software is actually developed and maintained.

By combining automated quality gates, confidence-based filtering, and targeted expert review, Centific enables teams to move beyond benchmark performance and toward code generation systems that function reliably inside production environments. This approach reduces deployment risk, improves trust, and aligns model behavior with real engineering standards rather than artificial test conditions.

Learn more about the Centific AI Data Foundry.

Appendix/methodology

Key Research References:

DevEval: A Manually-Annotated Code Generation Benchmark Aligned with Real-World Code Repositories, Jia Li et al. (2024): The source for “over 99% of functions discarded due to lack of tests.”
QScored: A Large Dataset of Code Smells and Quality Metrics, T. Sharma, M. Kessentini: Defines multi-layer code quality metrics and smell detection standards.
CODEJUDGE: Evaluating Code Generation with Large Language Models, Weixi Tong et al.: Introduces LLM-based correctness evaluation for code with or without tests.
SWE-Judge: An LLM-as-Judge Metric for Software Engineering Tasks, 2025: High-correlate ensemble LLM meta-evaluation.
On the Impacts of Contexts on Repository-Level Code Generation — REPOEXEC, arXiv:2406.11927: Guides full-dependency context extraction and scoring.
Automated Benchmark Generation for Repository-Level Coding Tasks — SETUPAGENT, arXiv:2503.07701: Details auto-extraction, test env setup, and why fail→pass PRs are rare.

Additional References:

Allamanis, DéjàVu (2019/2022): Quantify and analyze code duplication in public benchmarks.
PyCG, DynaPyt: Methods and recall/precision for Python dependency extraction.

Co-Authors:

Ashi Jain, Kriti Banka, Manish Mehta, Naman Khandelwal, Parth Kulshreshtha, and Sunil Kothari.

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