TENET: One Step Toward Test-Driven Development for Repository-Level Code Generation

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arXiv:2509.24148v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a widely adopted practice that requires developers to create and execute tests alongside implementation. With recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs), developers can shift from manually writing the code to defining tests as executable specifications and delegating code synthesis to AI agents. However, enabling repository-level TDD under developer-written tests is challenging, requiring: (1) specifi