EnvBench: Automating Development Environment Setup
A benchmark for evaluating LLM capabilities in software configuration tasks
EnvBench introduces the first comprehensive benchmark for evaluating automated environment setup capabilities of Large Language Models in software engineering contexts.
- Creates a standardized way to measure LLM performance on repository-level environment configuration tasks
- Evaluates various LLM-based approaches across diverse software repositories
- Provides insights into which strategies work best for automating a critical developer workflow
- Establishes baseline performance metrics for future research in this area
Why it matters: Environment setup is a cornerstone task for working with software repositories that often requires significant manual effort and troubleshooting. By automating this process, developers can dramatically reduce setup time and focus on core development tasks.