About

With the help of this application you can calculate the Hamming distance (substitution values only) and Levenshtein distance of the given strings.

Screenshots

User Interface to calculate distance from Browser

Input Field Validation Error:

Response

Installation

Here is how you can run the project locally:

1. Clone this repo

    git clone {REPOSITORY_URL}

2. Go into the project root directory

    cd /distance-calculator

3. Copy .env.example file to .env file

    cp .env.example .env

4. Run the following command to install the dependency

    composer install

5. Run the command to serve the project

    php artisan serve

6. Open this link in your browser http://127.0.0.1:8000

Run Calculation Using CLI

1. Goto your project directory using the following command.

    cd ./distance-calculator

2. Run this command

    php artisan app:calculate

3. Input first string and hit enter.
4. Input second string and hit enter.
5. You should see the distance calculation of both the strings in the result.

Unit Tests

1. Goto the project directory using the following command.

    cd ./distance-calculator

2. Run this command

    php artisan test

Folder Structure

We are using the following files in this project.

• Controllers
  • App\Http\Controllers\IndexController.php
• Validation Requests
  • App\Http\Requests\Index.php
• Routes
  • Routes\Web.php
• View Templates
  • Resources\Views\layouts\app.blade.php
  • Resources\Views\index.blade.php
• Console Commands
  • App\Console\Commands\CalculationCommand.php
• Test Cases
  • Tests\Feature\IndexControllerTest.php
  • Tests\Unit\CalculationTest.php