From Software History to Executable Regression Tasks: A System for Evaluating Software Agents

Ruikai Shi, Zhengran Zeng, Rui Xie, Shikun Zhang, Wei Ye

As software agents increasingly generate and modify code, evaluating their ability to review changes and discover defects becomes important. Such evaluation needs executable project environments for investigation and reliable defect references supported by reproducible behavior. Existing code review benchmarks provide limited support for this combination. We present a system that constructs executable regression instances from historical introducing--fixing commit pairs and developer tests. The system extracts candidate tests from fixing-side changes, then uses constrained agents to transplant them and configure version-specific environments while preserving production code and test expectations. Independent replay and evidence-based review verify whether tests that fail on the introducing version and pass on the fixing version support the proposed regression relationship. Accepted instances retain both versions' replay recipes, validated tests, and execution evidence. Repair-supported analysis and human review add root-cause locations, tested repairs, and causal explanations. These instances support bug detection and localization in code review, and enable bug repair and…