James Wilson

22 papers A* 2C 1Misc 1Journal 11Unranked 6
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Michael Groom, James Wilson, Nick Hawes, Lars Kunze
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Vassil Atanassov, Wanming Yu, Siddhant Gangapurwala, James Wilson, Ioannis Havoutis
2024 conf
APMS (6)
Weiyuan Li, Ming K. Lim, James Wilson
2024 J jnl
CoRR
James Wilson, Max D. Champneys, Matt Tipuric, Robin S. Mills, David James Wagg, Timothy J. Rogers
2024 J jnl
Commun. ACM
Dhaminda B. Abeywickrama, Amel Bennaceur, Greg Chance, Yiannis Demiris, Anastasia Kordoni, Mark Levine, Luke Moffat, Luc Moreau, Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Bashar Nuseibeh, Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Jan Oliver Ringert, James Wilson, Shane Windsor, Kerstin Eder
2023 conf
SAFECOMP Workshops
Dhaminda B. Abeywickrama, James Wilson, Suet Lee, Greg Chance, Peter D. Winter, Arianna Manzini, Ibrahim Habli, Shane Windsor, Sabine Hauert, Kerstin Eder
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Dhaminda B. Abeywickrama, James Wilson, Suet Lee, Greg Chance, Peter D. Winter, Arianna Manzini, Ibrahim Habli, Shane Windsor, Sabine Hauert, Kerstin Eder
2023 Misc conf
SAC
Cyril Monette, James Wilson
2023 conf
TAS
James Wilson, Greg Chance, Peter D. Winter, Suet Lee, Emma Milner, Dhaminda B. Abeywickrama, Shane Windsor, John Downer, Kerstin Eder, Jonathan Ives, Sabine Hauert
2022 J jnl
Artif. Life Robotics
James Wilson, Sabine Hauert
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Dhaminda B. Abeywickrama, Amel Bennaceur, Greg Chance, Yiannis Demiris, Anastasia Kordoni, Mark Levine, Luke Moffat, Luc Moreau, Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Bashar Nuseibeh, Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Jan Oliver Ringert, James Wilson, Shane Windsor, Kerstin Eder
2022 conf
DARS
James Wilson, Sabine Hauert
2021 J jnl
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.
Yubing Tian, Ricardo Gomez, Marika Cifor, James Wilson, Henry Morgan
2018 conf
TAROS
James Wilson, Jon Timmis, Andy M. Tyrrell
2018 conf
SSCI
James Wilson, Jon Timmis, Andy M. Tyrrell
2018 A* conf
CVPR
Gordon A. Christie, Neil Fendley, James Wilson, Ryan Mukherjee
2017 J jnl
CoRR
Gordon A. Christie, Neil Fendley, James Wilson, Ryan Mukherjee
2016 J jnl
J. Artif. Soc. Soc. Simul.
Nick Scott, Michael Livingston, Aaron Hart, James Wilson, David Moore, Paul Dietze
2013 J jnl
Robotics Auton. Syst.
Tao Geng, James Wilson, Michael Sheldon, Mark H. Lee, Martin Hülse
2010 C conf
PACLIC
James Wilson, Anthony Hartley, Serge Sharoff, Paul Stephenson
1988
Operating system data structures for shared memory MIMD machines with fetch-and-add.
James Wilson
1985 A* conf
ISCA
Jan Edler, Allan Gottlieb, Clyde P. Kruskal, Kevin P. Mcauliffe, Larry Rudolph, Marc Snir, Patricia J. Teller, James Wilson
tests/unit/test_decompile_medium_level.py
← Index tests/unit/test_decompile_medium_level.py python
# tests/unit/test_decompile_medium_level.py
"""Unit tests (mocked BN) for bninja/analysis/medium_level.py
   and bninja/analysis/medium_level_normalization.py."""
# tests/unit/test_decompile_medium_level.py
import sys
from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch

# Installa gli stubs BN
from tests.unit.conftest_binja_stubs import install_binja_stubs
install_binja_stubs()

# ── Definisci MockMLILInstruction PRIMA di importare il modulo ──
class MockMLILInstruction:
    def __init__(self, operation, address=0, operands=None):
        self.operation = operation
        self.address = address
        self.operands = operands or []

# ── Patcha il modulo BN in modo che isinstance() funzioni ──
sys.modules["binaryninja"].MediumLevelILInstruction = MockMLILInstruction
sys.modules["binaryninja"].SSAVariable = type("SSAVariable", (), {})
sys.modules["binaryninja"].Variable = type("Variable", (), {})
sys.modules["binaryninja"].ILIntrinsic = type("ILIntrinsic", (), {})

# Ora importa il modulo — vede già i tipi corretti
from redb.extractors.decompiler.bninja.analysis.medium_level_normalization import (
    MediumLevelNormalization,
)	

class MockMLILFunction:
    def __init__(self, instructions):
        self._instructions = instructions

    @property
    def instructions(self):
        return iter(self._instructions)

    @property
    def basic_blocks(self):
        # one block containing all instructions, good enough for MinHasher
        block = MagicMock()
        block.__iter__ = lambda self_: iter([])  # not used by MediumLevelAnalysis
        return [block]


class MockFunction:
    def __init__(self, name="func", start=0x1000, mlil=None):
        self.name = name
        self.start = start
        self.mlil = mlil



class TestMediumLevelNormalization:
    def setup_method(self):
        from redb.extractors.decompiler.bninja.analysis.medium_level_normalization import (
            MediumLevelNormalization,
        )
        self.norm = MediumLevelNormalization()

    def test_normalize_skeleton_single_instruction(self):
        il = MockMLILInstruction(operation=42, operands=[])
        result = self.norm.normalize_instruction_all_levels(il)
        assert result == [42]

    def test_normalize_skeleton_nested(self):
        inner = MockMLILInstruction(operation=7, operands=[])
        outer = MockMLILInstruction(operation=1, operands=[inner])
        result = self.norm.normalize_instruction_all_levels(outer)
        assert result == [1, 7]

    def test_normalize_skeleton_with_list_operand(self):
        inner_a = MockMLILInstruction(operation=10, operands=[])
        inner_b = MockMLILInstruction(operation=11, operands=[])
        outer = MockMLILInstruction(operation=2, operands=[[inner_a, inner_b]])
        result = self.norm.normalize_instruction_all_levels(outer)
        assert result == [2, 10, 11]

    def test_normalize_skeleton_none(self):
        result = self.norm.normalize_instruction_all_levels(None)
        # collect on None should leave ops empty
        assert result == []

    def test_normalize_typed_appends_leaf_types(self):
        # operand is a plain int -> "CONST"
        il = MockMLILInstruction(operation=3, operands=[42])
        result = self.norm.normalize_instr_with_operands(il)
        assert result == [3, "CONST"]

    def test_normalize_typed_bool_before_int(self):
        # bool must be detected before int (since bool is an int subclass)
        il = MockMLILInstruction(operation=4, operands=[True])
        result = self.norm.normalize_instr_with_operands(il)
        assert result == [4, "BOOL"]

    def test_normalize_typed_float(self):
        il = MockMLILInstruction(operation=5, operands=[1.5])
        result = self.norm.normalize_instr_with_operands(il)
        assert result == [5, "FLOAT_CONST"]

    def test_normalize_typed_str(self):
        il = MockMLILInstruction(operation=6, operands=["hello"])
        result = self.norm.normalize_instr_with_operands(il)
        assert result == [6, "STR"]

    def test_normalize_typed_unknown_falls_back_to_typename(self):
        class Weird:
            pass
        il = MockMLILInstruction(operation=8, operands=[Weird()])
        result = self.norm.normalize_instr_with_operands(il)
        assert result == [8, "WEIRD"]

    def test_normalize_typed_nested_mlil(self):
        inner = MockMLILInstruction(operation=99, operands=[7])
        outer = MockMLILInstruction(operation=1, operands=[inner])
        result = self.norm.normalize_instr_with_operands(outer)
        assert result == [1, 99, "CONST"]

    def test_normalize_typed_list_mixed(self):
        inner = MockMLILInstruction(operation=50, operands=[])
        il = MockMLILInstruction(operation=2, operands=[[inner, 99]])
        result = self.norm.normalize_instr_with_operands(il)
        assert result == [2, 50, "CONST"]


class TestMediumLevelAnalysis:
    def _make_analysis(self, instructions=None, mlil=True, start=0x1000):
        from redb.extractors.decompiler.bninja.analysis.medium_level import (
            MediumLevelAnalysis,
        )
        mlil_func = MockMLILFunction(instructions or []) if mlil else None
        func = MockFunction(name="testfunc", start=start, mlil=mlil_func)
        bv = MagicMock()
        return MediumLevelAnalysis(func, bv, MagicMock())

    def test_collect_returns_empty_when_no_mlil(self):
        a = self._make_analysis(mlil=False)
        sk, sk_addr, ty, ty_addr = a._collect_mlil_skeleton_and_typed()
        assert sk == [] and sk_addr == [] and ty == [] and ty_addr == []

    def test_collect_skeleton_and_typed_basic(self):
        instrs = [
            MockMLILInstruction(operation=1, address=0x1000, operands=[]),
            MockMLILInstruction(operation=2, address=0x1004, operands=[42]),
        ]
        a = self._make_analysis(instructions=instrs, start=0x1000)
        sk, sk_addr, ty, ty_addr = a._collect_mlil_skeleton_and_typed()

        assert sk == [[1], [2]]
        assert ty == [[1], [2, "CONST"]]
        assert sk_addr == [(0, [1]), (4, [2])]
        assert ty_addr == [(0, [1]), (4, [2, "CONST"])]

    def test_collect_negative_offset_clamped_to_zero(self):
        instrs = [
            MockMLILInstruction(operation=1, address=0x900, operands=[]),
        ]
        a = self._make_analysis(instructions=instrs, start=0x1000)
        _, sk_addr, _, ty_addr = a._collect_mlil_skeleton_and_typed()
        assert sk_addr[0][0] == 0
        assert ty_addr[0][0] == 0

    def test_log_error_records_entry(self):
        a = self._make_analysis()
        a.log_error("boom", "fname", 0x1234, ValueError("x"), "loc")
        assert len(a.errors) == 1
        err = a.errors[0]
        assert err["function_name"] == "fname"
        assert err["function_address"] == "4660"  # hex 0x1234
        assert err["error_location"] == "loc"
        assert err["error_message"] == "boom"
        assert err["error_type"] == "ValueError"
        assert "timestamp" in err

    @patch(
        "redb.extractors.decompiler.bninja.analysis.medium_level.MinHasher"
    )
    def test_analyze_returns_expected_keys(self, mock_minhasher):
        mock_minhasher.return_value.calculateMinHash.return_value = [1, 2, 3]

        instrs = [
            MockMLILInstruction(operation=1, address=0x1000, operands=[]),
            MockMLILInstruction(operation=2, address=0x1004, operands=[42]),
            MockMLILInstruction(operation=3, address=0x1008, operands=[]),
        ]
        a = self._make_analysis(instructions=instrs, start=0x1000)
        result, errors = a.analyze()

        expected_keys = {
            "function_address",
            "body_mlil_skeleton_vector",
            "sha256_mlil_skeleton",
            "tlsh_mlil_skeleton",
            "minhash_mlil_skeleton",
            "body_mlil_typed_vector",
            "sha256_mlil_typed",
            "tlsh_mlil_typed",
            "minhash_mlil_typed",
        }
        assert set(result.keys()) == expected_keys
        assert result["function_address"] == 0x1000
        assert result["minhash_mlil_skeleton"] == [1, 2, 3]
        assert result["minhash_mlil_typed"] == [1, 2, 3]
        assert errors == []

    @patch(
        "redb.extractors.decompiler.bninja.analysis.medium_level.MinHasher"
    )
    def test_analyze_empty_mlil(self, mock_minhasher):
        mock_minhasher.return_value.calculateMinHash.return_value = []
        a = self._make_analysis(mlil=False)
        result, errors = a.analyze()
        assert result["body_mlil_skeleton_vector"] == []
        assert result["body_mlil_typed_vector"] == []
        assert errors == []

    @patch(
        "redb.extractors.decompiler.bninja.analysis.medium_level.MinHasher"
    )
    def test_analyze_sha256_differs_skeleton_vs_typed(self, mock_minhasher):
        mock_minhasher.return_value.calculateMinHash.return_value = []

        instrs = [
            MockMLILInstruction(operation=1, address=0x1000, operands=[42]),
            MockMLILInstruction(operation=2, address=0x1004, operands=["foo"]),
            MockMLILInstruction(operation=3, address=0x1008, operands=[True]),
        ]
        a = self._make_analysis(instructions=instrs)
        result, _ = a.analyze()
        # skeleton ignores operand leaves, typed includes them -> different hashes
        assert result["sha256_mlil_skeleton"] != result["sha256_mlil_typed"]


class TestMinHasherMLILKinds:
    def _make_func(self, instrs):
        # MinHasher iterates basic_blocks then over each block
        block = MagicMock()
        block.__iter__ = lambda self_: iter(instrs)
        f = MagicMock()
        f.basic_blocks = [block]
        return f

    def test_mlil_skeleton_uses_medium_normalizer(self):
        from redb.extractors.decompiler.bninja.similarity.minhasher import (
            MinHasher, TokenKind,
        )
        instrs = [
            MockMLILInstruction(operation=i, operands=[]) for i in range(5)
        ]
        func = self._make_func(instrs)
        hasher = MinHasher(seed=42, il_function=func, kind=TokenKind.MLIL)
        result = hasher.calculateMinHash()
        # 5 instructions -> 3 trigrams -> non-empty signature
        assert result != []

    def test_typed_mlil_differs_from_skeleton(self):
        from redb.extractors.decompiler.bninja.similarity.minhasher import (
            MinHasher, TokenKind,
        )
        instrs = [
            MockMLILInstruction(operation=1, operands=[42]),
            MockMLILInstruction(operation=2, operands=["s"]),
            MockMLILInstruction(operation=3, operands=[True]),
            MockMLILInstruction(operation=4, operands=[1.5]),
        ]
        func = self._make_func(instrs)
        skel = MinHasher(seed=42, il_function=func, kind=TokenKind.MLIL).calculateMinHash()
        typed = MinHasher(seed=42, il_function=func, kind=TokenKind.TYPED_MLIL).calculateMinHash()
        # Same seed, same instructions, but typed has extra leaf tokens
        # -> hashes should generally differ
        assert skel != typed

    def test_mlil_too_few_instructions(self):
        from redb.extractors.decompiler.bninja.similarity.minhasher import (
            MinHasher, TokenKind,
        )
        instrs = [MockMLILInstruction(operation=1, operands=[])] * 2
        func = self._make_func(instrs)
        hasher = MinHasher(seed=42, il_function=func, kind=TokenKind.MLIL)
        assert hasher.calculateMinHash() == []

    def test_unsupported_kind_raises(self):
        from redb.extractors.decompiler.bninja.similarity.minhasher import MinHasher
        func = self._make_func([])
        hasher = MinHasher(seed=42, il_function=func, kind="bogus")
        with pytest.raises(ValueError):
            hasher.calculateMinHash()