VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Zhiquan Yang
dblp:290/0630
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · unresolved
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Software testing · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Software testing › test input generation
test data augmentation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Unit Test Update through LLM-Driven Context Collection and Error-Type-Aware Refinement · ASE 2025 |
Software testing
test maintenance |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Unit Test Update through LLM-Driven Context Collection and Error-Type-Aware Refinement · ASE 2025 |
Software testing
test repair |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Unit Test Update through LLM-Driven Context Collection and Error-Type-Aware Refinement · ASE 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
large language model · 0.9iterative refinement · 0.9error-type-aware refinement · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Multi-hop spatio-temporal graph convolutional networks for brain disorder diagnosis and prognosis
Haoxiang Liu, Junquan Zhang, Zhi Fang, Xiyue Sun, Dingyang Liu, Zhiquan Yang, Jingliang Cheng, Huafu Chen, Wei Huang 0016 |
Pattern Recognit. | 8 |
| 2025 | Unit Test Update through LLM-Driven Context Collection and Error-Type-Aware RefinementabstractUnit testing is critical for ensuring software quality and software system stability. The current practice of manually maintaining unit tests suffers from low efficiency and the risk of delayed or overlooked fixes. Therefore, an automated approach is required to instantly update unit tests, with the capability to both repair and enhance unit tests. However, existing automated test maintenance methods primarily focus on repairing broken tests, neglecting the scenario of enhancing existing tests to verify new functionality. Meanwhile, due to their reliance on rule-based context collection and the lack of verification mechanisms, existing approaches struggle to handle complex code changes and often produce test cases with low correctness.To address these challenges, we propose TestUpdater, a novel Large Language Model (LLM) based approach that enables automated just-in-time test updates in response to production code changes. By emulating the reasoning process of developers, TestUpdater first leverages the LLM to analyze code changes and identify relevant context, which it then extracts and filters. This LLM-driven context collector can flexibly gather accurate and sufficient context, enabling better handling of complex code changes. Then, through carefully designed prompts, TestUpdater guides the LLM step by step to handle various types of code changes and introduce new dependencies, enabling both the repair of broken tests and the enhancement of tests. Finally, emulating the debugging process, we introduce an error-type-aware iterative refinement mechanism that executes the LLM-updated tests and repairs failures, which significantly improves the overall correctness of test updates.Since existing test repair datasets lack scenarios of test enhancement, we further construct a new benchmark, Updates4J, with 195 real-world samples from 7 projects, enabling execution-based evaluation of test updates. Experimental results show that TestUpdater achieves a compilation pass rate of 94.4% and a test pass rate of 86.7%, outperforming the state-of-the-art method Synter by 15.9% and 20.0%, respectively. Furthermore, TestUpdater exhibits 12.9% higher branch coverage and 15.2% greater line coverage than Synter. Yuanhe Zhang, Zhiquan Yang, Shengyi Pan, Zhongxin Liu 0002 |
ASE | 2 |