TransducerTestGenerator.java

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 * (C) Copyright 2005 Arnaud Bailly (arnaud.oqube@gmail.com),
 *     Yves Roos (yroos@lifl.fr) and others.
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package rationals.transductions.testing;

import java.util.Set;

import rationals.transductions.DeterministicTransducer;
import rationals.transductions.TransductionException;

/**
 * Base interface for generating testing sequences for deterministic transducers.
 * 
 * @author nono
 * @version $Id: TransducerTestGenerator.java 2 2006-08-24 14:41:48Z oqube $
 */
public interface TransducerTestGenerator {

    /**
     * This method generates a test suite for the given transducer 
     * according to some algorithm.
     * 
     * @param t a deterministic minimal transducer.
     * @return a set of input words - arrays of Object - for the transducer 
     * @throws TransductionException if something bad happens while constructing test suite.
     */
    public Set testSuite(DeterministicTransducer t) throws TransductionException;
    
}