Tural Mammadov

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2since 2021 · last 2026
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Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 2 · 1 first-author · 2 since 2021
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2026 Learning Program Behavioral Models from Synthesized Input-Output Pairs
abstract
We introduce Modelizer —a novel framework that, given a black-box program, learns a model from its input/output behavior using neural machine translation algorithms. The resulting model mocks the original program: Given an input, the model predicts the output that would have been produced by the program. However, the model is also reversible —that is, the model can predict the input that would have produced a given output. Finally, the model is differentiable and can be efficiently restricted to predict only a certain aspect of the program behavior. Modelizer uses grammars to synthesize and inputs and unsupervised tokenizers to decompose the resulting outputs, allowing it to learn sequence-to-sequence associations between token streams. Other than input grammars, Modelizer only requires the ability to execute the program. The resulting models are small, requiring fewer than 6.3 million parameters for languages such as Markdown or HTML; and they are accurate, achieving up to 95.4% accuracy and a BLEU score of 0.98 with standard error of 0.04 in mocking real-world applications. As it learns from and predicts executions rather than code, Modelizer departs from the LLM-centric research trend, opening new opportunities for program-specific models that are fully tuned toward individual programs. Indeed, we foresee several applications of these models, especially as the output of the program can be any aspect of program behavior. Beyond mocking and predicting program behavior, the models can also synthesize inputs that are likely to produce a particular behavior, such as failures or coverage, thus assisting in program understanding and maintenance.
Tural Mammadov, Dietrich Klakow, Alexander Koller, Andreas Zeller
ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.1
2025 BASHIRI: Learning Failure Oracles from Execution Features
abstract
Program fixes must preserve passing tests while fixing failing ones. Validating these properties requires test oracles that distinguish passing from failing runs.We introduce BASHIRI, a tool that learns failure oracles from test suites with labeled outcomes using execution features. BASHIRI leverages execution-feature-driven debugging to collect program execution features and trains interpretable models as testing oracles. Our evaluation shows that BASHIRI predicts test outcomes with 95% accuracy, effectively identifying failing runs. BASHIRI is available as an open-source tool at https://github.com/smythi93/bashiriA demonstration video is available at https://youtu.be/D2mJkCtSXtM
Marius Smytzek, Martin Eberlein, Tural Mammadov, Lars Grunske, Andreas Zeller
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