Code Health in LLM-Based Test Generation: Effectiveness and Token Efficiency — AI agent app

Freya Wirdemann, Markus Borg, Nadim Hagatulah, Adam Tornhill/Code Health in LLM-Based Test Generation: Effectiveness and Token EfficiencyUnknown

Coding agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) are now prominent in software engineering. Previous work has shown that AI tools perform better on high-quality source code that is easy to maintain. In this study, we investigate how the effectiveness of LLM-generated unit tests varies across maintainability levels measured by CodeScene's CodeHealth (CH). We assess test effectiveness using traditional coverage metrics and mutation score across Python, Java, and C++. Moreover, we study how code with different levels of CH translates into input tokens using common industrial tokenizers. Our results suggest that CH provides a weak but consistent signal of LLM-generated test effectiveness and is negatively correlated with input-token count. These findings provide further evidence for a relationship between maintainability and LLM-based software development.

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