Merge pull request #1480 from Aayush-Goel-04/Aayush-Goel-04/Issue#1446

Create test binja backend when invoking standalone capa.exe

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@
 - symtab: fix struct.unpack() format for 64-bit ELF files @yelhamer
 - symtab: safeguard against ZeroDivisionError for files containing a symtab with a null entry size @yelhamer
 - improve ELF strtab and needed parsing @mr-tz
-- better handle exceptional cases when parsing ELF files #1471 @Aayush-Goel-04
-
+- better handle exceptional cases when parsing ELF files [#1458](https://github.com/mandiant/capa/issues/1458) [@Aayush-Goel-04](https://github.com/aayush-goel-04)
+- Improved testing coverage for Binary Ninja Backend [#1446](https://github.com/mandiant/capa/issues/1446) [@Aayush-Goel-04](https://github.com/aayush-goel-04)
 - extractor: fix binja installation path detection does not work with Python 3.11
 
 ### capa explorer IDA Pro plugin

tests/test_binja_features.py

@@ -10,8 +10,11 @@ import logging
 import fixtures
 from fixtures import *
 
+import capa.main
+
 logger = logging.getLogger(__file__)
 
+
 # We need to skip the binja test if we cannot import binaryninja, e.g., in GitHub CI.
 binja_present: bool = False
 try:
@@ -45,3 +48,10 @@ def test_binja_features(sample, scope, feature, expected):
 )
 def test_binja_feature_counts(sample, scope, feature, expected):
     fixtures.do_test_feature_count(fixtures.get_binja_extractor, sample, scope, feature, expected)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(binja_present is False, reason="Skip binja tests if the binaryninja Python API is not installed")
+def test_standalone_binja_backend():
+    CD = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+    test_path = os.path.join(CD, "..", "tests", "data", "Practical Malware Analysis Lab 01-01.exe_")
+    assert capa.main.main([test_path, "-b", capa.main.BACKEND_BINJA]) == 0