Malcolm Wallace

14 papers A 3C 2Journal 2Unranked 6
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2009 C conf
PADL
David J. Duke, Rita Borgo, Malcolm Wallace, Colin Runciman
2008 A conf
ICFP
David J. Duke, Rita Borgo, Colin Runciman, Malcolm Wallace
2007 conf
IFL
Malcolm Wallace
2006 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.
David J. Duke, Malcolm Wallace, Rita Borgo, Colin Runciman
2005 conf
FESCA@ETAPS
Malcolm Wallace
2002 conf
Advanced Functional Programming
Koen Claessen, Colin Runciman, Olaf Chitil, John Hughes, Malcolm Wallace
2002 conf
IFL
Olaf Chitil, Colin Runciman, Malcolm Wallace
2000 conf
IFL
Olaf Chitil, Colin Runciman, Malcolm Wallace
1999 A conf
ICFP
Malcolm Wallace, Colin Runciman
1998 C conf
ISMM
Malcolm Wallace, Colin Runciman
1995 J jnl
Softw. Pract. Exp.
Malcolm Wallace, Colin Runciman
1995
Malcolm Wallace
1995 conf
FPCA
Malcolm Wallace, Colin Runciman
1994 A conf
Functional Programming
Malcolm Wallace, Colin Runciman
tests/unit/test_decompile_strings.py
← Index tests/unit/test_decompile_strings.py python
"""Unit tests for bninja/analysis/strings.py — StringAnalysis."""
import pytest
import math
from unittest.mock import MagicMock


# StringAnalysis has no binaryninja imports, just collections and math
from redb.extractors.decompiler.bninja.analysis.strings import StringAnalysis


# ============================================================================
# Helper mocks
# ============================================================================

class MockStringEntry:
    """Mock for a Binary Ninja string reference."""
    def __init__(self, value, raw=None, start=0, length=0, type_name="Utf8String"):
        self.value = value
        self.raw = raw if raw is not None else (value.encode("utf-8") if isinstance(value, str) else value)
        self.start = start
        self.length = length if length else len(self.raw)
        self.type = MagicMock()
        self.type.name = type_name


class MockBinaryView:
    """Mock binary view with a strings list."""
    def __init__(self, strings=None):
        self.strings = strings or []


# ============================================================================
# 6a. StringAnalysis
# ============================================================================


class TestStringAnalysisEntropy:
    def setup_method(self):
        self.sa = StringAnalysis(bv=MockBinaryView(), functions=[])

    def test_entropy_empty_string(self):
        assert self.sa.entropy("") == 0.0

    def test_entropy_single_char(self):
        assert self.sa.entropy("aaaa") == 0.0

    def test_entropy_uniform_distribution(self):
        # "abcd" -> 4 unique chars, each p=1/4, entropy = log2(4) = 2.0
        result = self.sa.entropy("abcd")
        assert result == pytest.approx(2.0)

    def test_entropy_binary_string(self):
        # "ab" -> 2 unique chars, each p=1/2, entropy = log2(2) = 1.0
        result = self.sa.entropy("ab")
        assert result == pytest.approx(1.0)


class TestStringAnalysisAnalyze:
    def test_analyze_deduplication(self):
        """Duplicate (string, encoding) pairs -> only first kept."""
        entries = [
            MockStringEntry("hello", start=100, type_name="Utf8String"),
            MockStringEntry("hello", start=200, type_name="Utf8String"),
        ]
        bv = MockBinaryView(strings=entries)
        sa = StringAnalysis(bv=bv, functions=[])
        result = sa.analyze()
        assert len(result) == 1
        assert result[0]["string_offset"] == 100

    def test_analyze_sorted_by_address(self):
        """First occurrence (lowest offset) is the one kept."""
        entries = [
            MockStringEntry("world", start=500, type_name="Utf8String"),
            MockStringEntry("world", start=100, type_name="Utf8String"),
        ]
        bv = MockBinaryView(strings=entries)
        sa = StringAnalysis(bv=bv, functions=[])
        result = sa.analyze()
        assert len(result) == 1
        # The analyze() sorts by start, so 100 comes first
        assert result[0]["string_offset"] == 100

    def test_analyze_empty_bv(self):
        bv = MockBinaryView(strings=[])
        sa = StringAnalysis(bv=bv, functions=[])
        result = sa.analyze()
        assert result == []

    def test_analyze_output_schema(self):
        entries = [MockStringEntry("test_string", start=0, type_name="Utf8String")]
        bv = MockBinaryView(strings=entries)
        sa = StringAnalysis(bv=bv, functions=[])
        result = sa.analyze()
        assert len(result) == 1
        r = result[0]
        required_keys = [
            "string",
            "string_raw",
            "string_encoding",
            "string_offset",
            "string_length",
            "string_raw_length",
            "string_entropy",
        ]
        for key in required_keys:
            assert key in r, f"Missing key: {key}"