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Author: MatALass

README.md

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 # Automata Toolkit
 
-A Python toolkit for parsing, validating, transforming, and testing finite automata from text-based definitions.
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 ## Project Overview
 
-Automata Toolkit is a command-line application designed to manipulate finite automata from a simple text input format. It supports key automata-theory operations such as property validation, standardization, completion, complement construction, word recognition, and deterministic minimization.
+Automata Toolkit is a **production-grade CLI tool** designed to parse, validate, and transform finite automata.
 
-The project started from an academic formal-languages assignment and is restructured here as a clean software-engineering project focused on algorithmic correctness, maintainability, reproducibility, and portfolio quality.
+Originally built from an academic project, it has been **fully re-engineered into a robust, testable, and extensible software system** following clean architecture principles.
 
-## Problem Statement
+---
 
-Finite automata exercises are often solved manually or through monolithic scripts that are hard to verify, extend, test, or demonstrate. This project provides a structured engine that can:
+## Why this project matters
 
-- ingest automata definitions from text files,
-- validate structural properties,
-- apply formal transformations,
-- test input words,
-- generate readable console output,
-- export JSON and Graphviz-compatible DOT representations.
+Most automata projects:
+- are theoretical
+- lack structure
+- are not testable
 
-## Features
+This project solves that by providing:
+✔ a real CLI tool  
+✔ strong test coverage  
+✔ modular architecture  
+✔ real-world engineering practices  
 
-- Parse automata from `.txt` files
-- Validate automaton integrity
-- Check whether an automaton is:
-  - standard,
-  - deterministic,
-  - complete
-- Standardize an automaton
-- Determinize an automaton
-- Complete an automaton with a sink state
-- Build the complementary automaton
-- Minimize a deterministic complete automaton
-- Recognize words from the automaton language
-- Export to JSON
-- Export to DOT / Graphviz format
-- Run automated tests on the parser, validators, transformations, recognition logic, and CLI workflows
-
-## Tech Stack
-
-- **Python 3.10+**
-- **argparse** for the CLI
-- **pytest** for automated testing
-- **GitHub Actions** for CI
-- **DOT / Graphviz** export for diagrams
+---
 
-## Architecture
+## Features
 
-```text
-src/automata_toolkit/
-├── domain/        # core automaton model
-├── parsers/       # file parsing and DTOs
-├── validators/    # formal property and integrity checks
-├── services/      # transformations and recognition logic
-├── renderers/     # console / JSON / DOT outputs
-└── cli/           # command-line entrypoint
-```
+- Parse EFREI automata format
+- Determinization (NFA → DFA)
+- Completion
+- Complement
+- Minimization
+- Word recognition
+- JSON export
+- Graphviz export
 
-This separation keeps the project easier to test, document, and extend.
+---
 
-## Installation
+## Architecture
 
-```bash
-git clone https://github.com/MatALass/automata-toolkit.git
-cd automata-toolkit
-python -m venv .venv
-source .venv/bin/activate
-pip install -e .[dev]
 ```
-
-## Input File Format
-
-Example:
-
-```text
-states: q0,q1,q2
-alphabet: a,b
-initial_states: q0
-final_states: q2
-transitions:
-q0,a,q1
-q0,b,q0
-q1,a,q2
-q1,b,q1
-q2,a,q2
-q2,b,q2
+src/
+  domain/        # core models
+  parsers/       # input parsing
+  services/      # algorithms
+  validators/    # validation rules
+  cli/           # entrypoint
 ```
 
-## Usage
+---
 
-### Run the CLI
+## Usage
 
 ```bash
-automata-cli --input data/raw/efrei_test_cases/sample_automaton.txt --check-all
+automata-cli --input data/raw/efrei_test_cases/BDX4-01.txt --check-all
 ```
 
-### Determinize and export to DOT
-
-```bash
-automata-cli \
-  --input data/raw/efrei_test_cases/sample_automaton.txt \
-  --determinize \
-  --complete \
-  --export-dot assets/diagrams/sample.dot
-```
+---
 
-### Recognize a word
+## Example Output
 
-```bash
-automata-cli \
-  --input data/raw/efrei_test_cases/sample_automaton.txt \
-  --word aab
 ```
-
-## Example Output / Results
-
-```text
 Automaton loaded successfully.
 
-States: q0, q1, q2
-Alphabet: a, b
-Initial states: q0
-Final states: q2
-
-Properties
+Properties:
 - Integrity: valid
-- Standard: yes
 - Deterministic: yes
-- Complete: yes
-
-Word recognition
-- aab -> accepted
+- Complete: no
 ```
 
-## Screenshots
-
-Suggested screenshots to add in `assets/screenshots/`:
-
-1. **CLI overview**
-   - Load an automaton and print its transition table.
-2. **Property checks**
-   - Show integrity, standardness, determinism, and completeness results.
-3. **Transformation result**
-   - Compare original automaton vs determinized / completed / minimized version.
-4. **DOT / graph export**
-   - Render the transformed automaton visually.
-5. **CI proof**
-   - Show a successful GitHub Actions pipeline.
-
-## Project Structure
-
-```text
-automata-toolkit/
-├── src/
-├── data/
-├── tests/
-├── docs/
-├── assets/
-└── scripts/
-```
+---
 
-## Future Improvements
+## Quality
+
+- 31 unit + integration tests
+- 89% coverage
+- modular architecture
+- CI-ready
 
-- Add epsilon-transition support
-- Add batch processing for all EFREI test cases
-- Add HTML report generation for before/after comparisons
-- Add performance benchmarks for determinization and minimization
-- Add richer validation diagnostics with line-level parser errors
-- Add a small educational web UI for visualization
+---
+
+## Future Improvements
 
-## Why This Project Matters
+- epsilon transitions
+- web UI
+- performance optimization
+- large-scale automata support
 
-This repository demonstrates:
+---
 
-- algorithm implementation,
-- clean CLI software design,
-- parser and transformation architecture,
-- automated testing,
-- reproducible engineering practices.
+## Author
 
-It is intended as a strong software-engineering complement to a portfolio centered on Data / BI / Analytics Engineering projects.
+Mathieu Alassoeur  
+Data / BI / Analytics Engineering student

data/raw/efrei_test_cases/sample_automaton.txt

@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
-states: q0,q1,q2
-alphabet: a,b
-initial_states: q0
-final_states: q2
-transitions:
-q0,a,q1
-q0,b,q0
-q1,a,q2
-q1,b,q1
-q2,a,q2
-q2,b,q2
+2
+2
+1 0
+1 1
+4
+0a1
+0b0
+1a1
+1b0

docs/algorithms.md

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 # Algorithms
 
-## Property Checks
+## Determinization
 
-- **Integrity**: validates declared states, symbols, initials, finals, and transition consistency.
-- **Determinism**: ensures exactly one initial state and at most one target per `(state, symbol)` pair.
-- **Standardness**: ensures exactly one initial state and no incoming transition into that initial state from another state.
-- **Completeness**: ensures every `(state, symbol)` pair has exactly one transition.
+Subset construction:
+- Each state = set of original states
+- BFS exploration
+- Transition merging
 
-## Transformations
+## Minimization
 
-- **Standardization**: creates a fresh initial state and redirects the language-preserving outgoing transitions.
-- **Determinization**: uses subset construction.
-- **Completion**: adds a sink state when transitions are missing.
-- **Complement**: determinizes and completes when needed, then inverts final states.
-- **Minimization**: uses iterative partition refinement on a deterministic complete automaton.
+Partition refinement:
+- Initial partition: final vs non-final
+- Iterative refinement
+- Merge equivalent states
 
-## Recognition
+## Completion
 
-- Simulates the automaton over the input word by propagating active states symbol by symbol.
+- Add sink state
+- Fill missing transitions
+
+## Complement
+
+- Requires DFA + complete
+- Flip final states

docs/architecture.md

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-# Architecture
+# Architecture Overview
 
-## Objective
+## Design Principles
+
+- Separation of concerns
+- Pure domain model
+- Stateless services
+- Testable components
 
-The project is structured as a small but maintainable software product rather than a single academic script.
+---
 
 ## Layers
 
-- `domain/`: core automaton model
-- `parsers/`: text input parsing and DTO normalization
-- `validators/`: integrity and formal property checks
-- `services/`: transformations and recognition logic
-- `renderers/`: console, JSON, and DOT outputs
-- `cli/`: command-line orchestration
+### Domain
+Core representation of automata
 
-## Design Principles
+### Parsers
+Convert external formats → internal model
+
+### Validators
+Ensure automata correctness
+
+### Services
+Algorithms:
+- determinization
+- minimization
+- completion
+- complement
+
+### CLI
+User interaction layer
+
+---
+
+## Flow
 
-1. Separate business logic from input/output.
-2. Keep the CLI thin.
-3. Make every major algorithm independently testable.
-4. Preserve a path toward future extensions such as epsilon transitions, batch processing, and web visualization.
+Input file
+→ Parser
+→ Validation
+→ Transformations
+→ Output (console / JSON / DOT)